Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 100
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for around low, circle back with the wind and swirled around rising in the air to shoot down when they again flung into the sea with a just splash. In this way they feed together in just quantity, often many hundred tubs. When the capelans had not only these tubs, but also the salmon, trout, and seals, and frogs, other animals. They are one of the great substitution of food just as the end is for the human species. Spent the day resting beside a fire. This morning after the first sufferer I feel better. I hope the wind changes to morning so that we may go on.