Show of the sea some mathematician of leisure has been estimating the number of islands in the world and has succeeded in counting some hundreds of thousands he says there are over 1000 island under the flag of japan strangely enough he makes no reference to the thousand islands of the st lawrence or to the thousands in our own georgian bay some of which are of considerable size it was among these beautiful wooded little islands that the huron indiana took refuge when they were assailed in 1649 by their implacable foes the iroquois among the channels the iroquois could not successfully pursue them and those who escaped to the islands caved themselves from the extermination which befell their friends toron toronto truth |