22 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. chap. xxi. 



Ill 1671 Pere Albanel accompanied Monsieur de Saint- 

 Simon up the Saugenay and Mistassinni rivers through 

 Lake Mistassinni, and then down Eupert Eiver to Hud- 

 son's Bay. There were three or four different routes 

 followed by the Indians between the St. Lawrence and 

 Hudson's Bay; the starting-points from the St. Lawrence 

 being the Ottawa, the St. Maurice, the Saugenay, and 

 the Moisie Eiver. The Saugenay route was first known 

 to Europeans. 



In 1670 Pere Albanel met on the Eiver Godbout 130 

 Indians, consisting in part of Oumamiwek, and partly of an- 

 other tribe called Ochessigiriniouek. The Eiver Godbout 

 is eight miles west of Point des Monts, or 261 miles below 

 Quebec accordmg to our modern measurement, Pere 

 Albanel describes these Lidians as entirely clothed in 

 the skms of the caribou, decorated with porcupine quills 

 and coloured feathers. Hunger was their great enemy. 

 They did not understand the use of fire-arms, but were 

 very skillful with the bow and arrow, and esteemed 

 themselves rich if they possessed a fishing-net. The 

 tribes named in the preceding paragraphs were pro- 

 bably Montagnais, with the exception of the Nation 

 des Monts Peles and the Oumamiwek, whose hunting- 

 grounds were in the country now occupied by a portion 

 of the Nasquapee tribe, and who may have belonged 

 to that people. It is remarkable that the Pere Albanel 

 says that polygamy was considered infamous among 

 the Oumamiwek, and that they had an aversion to con- 

 jurors. 



In describing the Nasquapees who firequent Ungava 

 Bay, Ml". W. A. Davies, quoting from a journal written 



