THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



CHAP. I. 



Being unable to engage better guides, we abandoned 

 one small canoe at the mouth of the Moisie, and notwith- 

 standing the warnings of the Indians on the coast, we 

 started on the 10th of June with the following equip- 

 ment : 



One strong Amalicite* canoe (my own), with the 

 Abenakis as guide, and a French Canadian as bowsman ; 

 one Micmacf canoe (Mr. W. Hind's), with two French 

 Canadians ; one Ottawa canoe (Mr. Gaudet's), eighteen 



THE START. 



feet long and very broad, containing Mr. Caley, three 

 French Canadians, and the Montagnais as steersman. 

 When laden with our supply of provisions, the three 



* The Amalicite nation are represented in Canada by a band of 171 persons, 

 who reside on a reserve situated on La Riviere Verte, in the township of 

 Viger. The principal strength of this people is in New Brunswick, where 

 they have several settlements in the valley of the River St. John. 



t The country of the Micmacs extended over Nova Scotia and the north 

 shore of New Brunswick. A band containing 473 souls are settled on the 

 banks of the Restigouche, in Lower Canada. They are Roman Catholics, 

 and have generally made satisfactory progress towards civilisation. Their 

 brethren in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick still exist for the most part in 

 a degraded state, and gain a precarious livelihood by hunting, fishing, and 

 the sale of rude articles of their own manufacture. 



