Terrified at his gigantic stature, they complied with his request, since which time no Indian has ever dared to approach the haunted coast.

Henry, however, with his men, finally discovered this Island of Yellow Sands in 1771, in the north-east part of Lake Superior.

It was much smaller than he had been led to expect, and very low and studded with small lakes, probably made by the action of beavers damming up the little streams.

He found no supernatural monster to dispute the island with him, but a number of large reindeer, so unused to the sight of man that they scarcely got out of his way, so that he was able to shoot as many as he wanted.

The ancestors of these reindeer may have reached the island either by floating ice or by swimming.