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direction Halkett gave me, and which I continued to repeat over and over to myself as I went along. This and watching my shadow--the only one that touched the earth--were my occupations. It may seem absurd, even to downright folly; but when from any change in the direction of my course the shadow did not fall in front of me, where I could mark it, my spirits fell, and my heavy heart grew heavier. When, however, it did precede me, I was never wearied watching how it dived down the little slopes, and rose again on the opposite bank, bending with each swell of the ground. Even this was companionship,--its very motion smacked of life. At length I came upon a little pool of rain-water, and, although far from clear, it reflected the bright blue sky and white clouds so temptingly that I sat down beside it to make my breakfast. As I sat thus, Hope was again with me, and I fancied how--in some long distant time, when favored by fortune, and possessed of every worldly gift, with rank, and riches, and honor--I should remember the hour when, a poor, friendless outcast, I ate my lonely meal on Anticosti. I fancied even, how friends would listen almost incredulously to the tale, and with what traits of pity or of praise they would follow me in my story. I felt I was not doomed to die in that dreary land, that my own courage would sustain me; and, thus armed, I again set out. Although I walked from daybreak to late evening, it was only a short time before darkness closed in that I saw a bulky mass straight before me, which I knew must be the log-house. I could scarcely drag my legs along a few moments before; but now I broke into a run, and with many a stumble, and more than one fall,--for I never turned my eyes from the hut,--I at last reached a little cleared spot of ground, in the midst of which stood the "Refuge-house." What a moment of joy was that as, unable to move farther, I sat down upon a little bench in front of the hut! All sense of my loneliness, all memory of my desolation, was lost in an instant. There was my home; how strange a word for that sad-looking hut of pine-logs, in a lone island, uninhabited! No matter, it would be my shelter and my refuge till better days came round; and with that stout resolve I entered the great roomy apartment, which in the settling gloom of night seemed immense. Striking a light, I proceeded to take a survey of my territory, which I rejoiced to see contained a great metal stov
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