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“They rested there, escaped awhile propriately enough, by Lasalle, while From cares that eat the life away, “voyaging” in a canoe in 1634. Those To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.” European innmigrants, when they squat- —The Tent on the Beach. ted in the front yard of a prosperous R I N D S T O N E Indian inhabitant and told him to get ISLAND, be- out, were wont to say that they had G l o v e d o f t h e “discovered” the place. The island canoeman, and after being lost to civilization and given its sister, Wellesley, the barbarous name which it now bears, are the two largest of was denizened by a people who built the far-famed Thou- sand Islands, and between them lie the s h e l t e r e d waters of Eel Bay. “Once upon a time,” not very long ago — for it continued un- til long after building the camp-fire. R o m e w a s