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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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tiesthe hosts gate was most effectually brokenup by his nephew in revenge for not beinginvited; and the rest of the night waspassed by the old man in hunting thepieces and the nephew, and imploringblessings on his head. At the other baywe had great difficulty in getting shelteron any terms. We addressed ourselvesfirst to a man who keeps the on\y hotel inthe place. What are ye?—blacklegs?Well, I dont know. *^ W^e look likethem, dont we? Faith, ye do. Hesent a lad to interview the wife, who man-ages the estate: she was in ill humor, andso the public-house was closed that day.Finally, after inquiring through the set-tlement, we found the good vein again,away down at the end of the point, justwhere we expected it to disappear underthe Atlantic. The tedium of a rainy daywas relieved by moping about the ruinsof the place—traces of cellars, chimneys,and a battery or two—and in gleaning afew facts from a history of Cape Breton. The civilization of Cape Breton seems CAPE BRETON FOLK. 611
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A STRANGE BEDFELLOW, to have been reserved for the Scotsman.The Spanish, Portuguese. Basques, Bret-ons, and Normans, who have visited theisland to obtain fish and fur, made no col-onies. Even the French, holding- the isl-and for over a century, did nothing* but•establish fishing- villages at Arichat, St.Peters, St. Anns Bay, Ingonish, and buildthe costly fortress at Louisburg to pro-tect them. Ingonish is said to have had^t that time a population of 4000 souls.But although they did nothing to devel-op the agriculture of Cape Breton, theFrench attached great importance to it asa nursery for drilling hardy seamen. When they lost the island, they obtain-ed what consolation they could in pos-sessions on the coast of Newfoundland,where they maintain to this day a largefleet of cod-fishers. The English in takingpossession of Cape Breton seem to have■continued the French policy. For twentyodd years after the conquest the govern-ment refused to grant lands to settlers, one of the motives

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