McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
the Dog in the Manger, neither hunt those animals themselves nor allow others to do it. Two solitary Canadians are the sole human inhabitants of this Island[.] They are settled with their families on the western end and raise a sufficiency on their farms pour faire la soupe[.] I have been told that Hemp grows here. Good harbours are scarce about Anticosti which no ship approaches in stormy weather with impunity or without getting wrecked on its hidden rocks and shoals[.]
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