Cape North 
Their flesh was eaten, and their oil used in 
cooking and for lighting. We are told that as 
many as eight hundred young ones were some- 
times killed in one day, so probably one 
would wait as long to see a live seal in these 
waters as to see a moose in the mountains back 
of Ingonish. 
At the McDonalds' we were enlightened 
concerning certain pieces of furniture which 
occasionally were found in the fisher-folk's 
houses, — furniture out of all keeping with the 
simple cottage fittings, furniture that belonged 
rather to the cities or the country-houses of 
the well-to-do. But here we learned that 
these articles were the flotsam and jetsam from 
the many vessels wrecked on that cruel coast, 
and it was hinted that time was when certain 
of the settlers busied themselves more in be- 
coming possessed of the spoil than in assist- 
ing the drowning. 
To leave Bay St. Lawrence was to turn 
southward and retrace our steps over moun- 
tains and swamps. Reluctantly we turned 
from the cold northern sea and the fine amphi- 
theatre with its encircling mountains of bare 
rock that were so wonderfully beautiful in the 
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