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The Darby sailed at 6.20 P.M.
and I have good accommodation. I
can expect a boat at Anticosti very
ten days.
The tides at Quebec is 18 feet, Autumn to Three Rivers
at Anticosti 6 feet.
On the way to Anticosti
Friday June 5.
No sea on and slept fairly well and
awoke not feeling particularly bad.
After breakfast Mr. Royes showed me
his Anticosti pictures and I was gre-
atly surprised with the considerable civil-
ization established on the west end of Anti-
costi by Mr. Grenier. His chateau is
certainly a handsome frame home with
many gables, a luxury in the wilderness.
Here he has an automobile and a fine
road runs some 12 miles from Engholm
Bay to Ellis Bay. This road cost more than