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of course in an expedition of the kind, all were for being of the party, so to prevent all word lots were drawn by the 24 on board and I procured as interpreter, with another fortunate put off for the shore which lay some 4 miles from the ship. On pulling to the land, we passed a small rocky island, at the extreme point of which lay the body of a sailor in a natural grave, the body lying between two rocks with a large stone and some branches on the top. The poor fellow had been wrecked and perished of cold before reaching the shore. Kamouraska is a small village 80 leagues from Quebec to which there is a tolerable road tho' little used. It is, with the exception of two families exclusively inhabited by French Canadians, who live in a most diminutive yet perfectly happy state, having all the comforts & some of the luxuries