Excerpt from The Isle of the Massacre The Micmacs, an industrious and intelligent people, were not unworthy of their good fortune. They not only appreciated but profited by so many advantages, and being distant from the fierce tribes of the West, and South, who but seldom molested them, enjoyed a tranquility then uncommon among Indian nations. Tracking the caribou or trapping the beaver in winter, - hunting the wolverine and bear or taking the salmon and cod in summer, - at peace amongst themselves and far from their enemies, they passed their lives in contentment and ease, happy in the midst of the grand and generous Nature by which they were surround. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.