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About a dozen log stractures covered with boards, iu most instances white-washed, 

 are arranged upon no definite plan, although an attempt has been made to construct them 

 so as to form three sides of a square, the fourth side being open to the water. 



The population is exclusively that of the servants of the Company, several of whom 

 have taken native (Inuuit) wives, and will soon show what could not be seen previous to 

 1866. Before that time there were no half-breeds at the place, and the oldest of those 

 there now are from twelve to fifteen years of age. 



The station is supported by the yield of furs from the district. The capture of the 

 white whale is undertaken, and from sixty to two hundred are secured annually. The 

 skins of these marine mammals are converted into durable leather, nearly impervious to 

 water. About one hundred and twenty barrels of porpoise and seal oil are exported. The 

 salmon and trout fishing, which takes place upon the river yields the greatest revenue. 

 The freshly caught fish are taken to a vessel having a refrigerating power by a dry-air 

 process, and there quickly washed and laid in crates stored in the hold. This cargo varies 

 from twenty-five to fifty tons per annum. The great number of reindeer in the vicinity 

 of the station affords the Company about 2,200 dressed skins of those creatures for 

 exportation. 



The decrease in the size of the salmon, taken now for over six years, has necessitated 

 other streams being visited ; and, the fitness of locating an outlying station, as a relief 

 post to the principal station, was wisely determined on. A new station, accordingly, was 

 established in September, 1884, on George Eiver, and named Fort George. This station 

 had been previously erected, but the peculiar vagaries of the fur-trader compelled its 

 abandonment before it could develop the resources of its surroundings. 



Fort Chimo and Fort George have the honor of being the farthest permanent dwellings 

 of white men to the north on the mainland bordering the Atlantic. 



