an interesting time for us boys, when a crowd of us got to the shore to help haul kelp. We would find pretty blocks and curious things that came ashore. We were fond of dulce and ate great quantities of it. Sometimes the body of a sailor that had been washed off his ves- sel came ashore. One night I got a great scare. I was on the shore alone and I saw in the kelp, what I supposed was the dead body of a man; it was wrapped in an oilcloth suit. I could not see it very plain- ly in the dim light of the moon. I fled in terror and reported at home what I had seen. In the morning, when we went to look, the kelp was gone and there was no dead man there, but there was the carcase of a large pig without any hair on it. It had likely been washed off the deck of a trading vessel. A pig is not a good sailor; he is better at the plough. He ploughs with his nose.

The Wreck of the Henrietta

One of the early settlers told how the ship "Henrietta”, lumber laden from Quebec to the Old Country was wrecked October 26th, 1856. Having cleared from Quebec she was caught near the mouth of the St. Lawrence in a heavy autumn gale from the southeast that lasted three days. Having sprung a-leak she soon became waterlogged and almost unmanageable, but they succeeded in keeping her off the north shore of Prince Edward Island and got around East Point. The ‘ people of that section expected to see her go ashore and a number of men went down to the beach to render assistance; but she cleared the‘ reef without grounding. This took place about sundown. There was a heavy roll and a fearful surf. But the storm had spent its force and the sea was getting smooth. She succeeded in reaching West River after dark, and the captain decided to run her ashore on the sandy beach that skirts the land at that place, but she grounded on the outer bar. The surf being so heavy and the ship pounding so badly the people on board found their lives were in danger and they sent up rockets to signal that they needed assistance. Men went at once to render aid. Having hailed the distressed crew, they were an- swered from the ship, begging the men on shore to save their lives, if possible; but nothing could be done to save the crew till near day- break, when the men on shore succeeded in getting a dory to the

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