32. Q. In what does the story of Evangeline thereafter chiefly center? A. In her long and fruitless search for Gabriel.
33. Q. To what city in the South did a large number of the Acadians go? A. New Orleans.
34. Q. Where did they form settlements? A. On both sides of the lower Mississippi.
35. Q. In what part of her wanderings is Evangeline first specially introduced to the reader? A. With a band of Acadians on a raft descending the Mississippi toward these settlements.
36. Q. While their raft was moored at the Atchafalaya who passed them during the night in a boat going north? A. Gabriel.
37. Q. At a settlement on the banks of the Têche what Acadian did they find? A. Basil the blacksmith, now a herdsman.
38. Q. What did Basil report as to Gabriel? A. That he had that day started for “the town of Adayes to trade for mules with the Spaniards,” and thence he would follow “the Indian trails to the Ozark Mountains,” hunting and trapping.
39. Q. The next morning who started to attempt to overtake Gabriel? A. Basil and Evangeline.
40. Q. When they arrived at the little inn of the Spanish town of Adayes what were they told by the landlord? A. “That on the day before, with horses and guides and companions, Gabriel left the village and took the road of the prairies.”
41. Q. At a Jesuit mission in the region of the Ozark Mountains, what did the priest inform them of Gabriel? A. That “not six suns” had “risen and set since Gabriel” had told him the same story, and then had continued his journey to the far north.