292 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. CHAP. xvm. 



Mi 1 . Holliclay, tlie lessee of the Salmon Fishery, occupied 

 the house which had been built by the Hudson Bay Com- 

 pany before the station called the King's Post came into 

 the possession of the Canadian Government. 



All the Indians whom we saw encamped here upon 

 our arrival had gone to meet Pere Arnaud at Seven 

 Islands. A Nasquapee with his family arrived on the 

 second day after we had reached the Moisie Bay, from Lake 

 Ashuanipi. They were dressed in caribou skins, and had 

 suffered much distress on their journey from want of 

 food. 



On the last day before reaching the fishing-station, the 

 father had eaten his mocassins, after dividing the small 

 quantity of caribou meat which was left out of their 

 little store among his children and wife. 



He wore his hair in two long plaits tied with a bit of 

 ribbon like the Ojibways of Eainy Lake and Lake of the 

 Woods ; his arms consisted of a bow six feet long and a 

 number of arrows of two different kinds, one with a broad 

 heavy head about two inches in diameter with a bit of flint 

 fastened to the extremity, the other armed with an iron 

 barb. The first kind of arrow was for birds and small 

 animals, the second for caribou, bear, and lynx. He had 

 a long knife of European manufacture, some fishing lines 

 made of sinew and fastened in the manner described 

 in Chapter XIII. He had also a small net made from 

 the sinews of the caribou, which was used for catching 

 speckled trout. This family had never been to the coast 

 before, and were, like many others, induced to leave their 

 hunting-grounds by the Montagnais and some of their 

 own tribes, whose accounts of the sea, the ships, the white 



