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     turned as silently or as boisterously as they had come 
     
     through the Strait of Belle Isle. But Isle Saint Jean, 
     
     by which name it was known in France, floated peace- 
     
     fully on the waves as its Indian name, Abegwet, 1m- 
     
     plies, reserving its Arcadian pleasures for a later 
     
     century. With the exception of the harmless super- 
     
     stition of the double-brained caribou, added by Sr. 
     
     Denys in 1672, the seventeenth-century ignorance of 
     
     Prince Edward Island remained as complete as it had 
     
     been after Cartier’s visit in 1534.