Down North and Up Along 
the second town of Cape Breton, and its fleet 
caught 13,560 quintals of fish. This is that 
Niganiche where the French in olden time 
went a-fishing, and where a paternal govern- 
ment ordered them away to the safe harbour 
of Port Dauphin, as St. Anne was called, after 
the fifteenth of August. 
" From Port Dauphin we arrived at Niga- 
niche," says Pinchon, " which is only a road, 
where the vessels are far from being safe ; but 
there is great plenty of codfish. Yet as it 
must be deserted at a certain season, and the 
country thereabouts is quite barren, there are 
hardly any dwellings upon the place. Even 
those few inhabitants are obliged to fetch their 
wood for firing from Port Dauphin." 
Ingonish may well have discouraged a 
people obliged to live on what they found 
there. But the day will come when its beauty 
will bring it a larger revenue than its codfish 
ever have brought or ever will bring. 
The highlands back of Ingonish used to be 
noted for the large game found there. Caribou 
and moose are said to have once existed in 
almost incredible numbers. But this is not a 
pleasant topic, for the deer were slaughtered 
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