these I am indebted to the invaluable collection of Geo. A. Leani, Souris.

' ' Whatever its shortcomings and inaccuracies, the following may prove of interest to another generation of inquirers into the early days of Prince Edward Island. Concerning these statements which may he questioned and labelled inaccuracies, these statements may well be as authentic as the so—celled corrections, since both will depend on memories of older citizens.

Apart from nome minor changes, the charmingly original methods of expression have been retained. A pedant in grammar may find fault with structure and com- position, but the writers were not literary people.

John Bunyan was not a literary man. Some of the worla's greatest literature was produced by men.who possessed no other qualifications than native wit, imagination, a seeing eye, a well-stored memory, and a healthy curiosity as to events and peeple.

Shortcomings anfi all, these items of interest concerning the period of Pioneers, Pine Timber and .fljtetoes on Prince Edward Island are respectfully submitted. '

Mary'Brehaut

Secretary of

$.E.I. Historical Society, 1959