Down North and Up Along 
and the birth of universal peace upon earth. 
It takes war a long time to die and universal 
peace a long time to get out of its swaddling 
clothes, but these things will surely come to 
pass. The submarine cable and war cannot 
live together on the same planet. 
We were unexpected guests at Zwicker's ; 
and such an event as our arrival must have 
occasioned the greatest astonishment, if not 
absolute consternation, to the two men whom 
fate, by taking away the mother, had left to 
continue the home as best they could. But we 
were received with such courtesy, and enter- 
tained with such skilful hospitality, that we 
did not know, until after we had left, that the 
brothers constituted the whole household. 
The history of Aspy Bay dates as far back 
as that of Englishtown and Ingonish, — at least 
in those days it had a name, the same it bears 
to-day ; and the French voyager Pinchon speaks 
also of this place, for he did not stop his trav- 
els until he had gone the whole length of the 
coast. 
" Leaving Niganiche, we came to the creek 
of Owarachouque," — which creek was that, we 
should like to know, the creek at Neils Har- 
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