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THE ISLE OF FRANCE

had sustained. Their regrets were a last homage to the man whose enterprise, as a sailor, had astonished the world, and who, as a trader, had benefited all the industries of the country which he idolised." It would be difficult to add a word to this eloquent eulogy.