40 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. chap, xxiii. 



CHAPTEE XXIII. 



SEVEN ISLANDS TO THE MINGANS. 



Manitou Iliver — Grand Falls of Manitoii Eiver — Origin of its 

 Name — Montagnais Tradition — The Souriquois or INIicmacs — 

 Battle of the Manitou Falls — The Micmac Conjuror — Indian 

 Revenge — The Micmac Invaders of the North Shore — The 

 Gaspesieus — Origin of the Name Gaspe — Mount St. John — 

 Magpie River — St. John River — Oxide of Iron on the Coast — 

 Extent to which it aftects the Compass — The Mingan Islands — 

 Description of Mingan Islands — Origin of their Names. 



A FINE breeze soon took us beyond the Seven Islands 

 into the estuary of the St. Lawrence. When fairly 

 in open water, the first range of hills in the rear of the 

 bay is seen to be the prolongation of the Grand Portage 

 on the Moisie, which had been our great trouble about 

 five weeks before. The range ^ comes on the coast at 

 Trout Eiver, six miles beyond the mouth of the Moisie, 

 and between it and the shores of the Gidf are very 

 extensive flats covered with forest. The cascades of 

 Buchan Falls [uid Hatteras Eiver, which leap directly into 

 the sea, are pretty objects even at a distance, but they are 

 utterly thrown into the shade by tlie magnificent cataract 

 of Manitou Eiver, which, at the distance of a mile and a 

 half from the coast, makes a grand plunge of 113 feet 

 sheer down. This river, perhaps the third or fomtli in 

 ])oint of magnitude on the whole coast, takes its rise in 

 lakes on the table-land. It is surpassed in volume of 



