168 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



(3) or 

 north-casl- 

 ivani to 

 Bonavista 

 Pay, and 

 south-east- 

 ward to 

 Placentia 

 and othci- 

 Bays. 



by two Bays and a river. In Cormack's time every northern 

 route that led east of Hall Bay and Grand Lake, north of a 

 line drawn between King George IV Lake and Island Lake, 

 and west of the line formed by Great Rattling Brook and the 

 Lower Exploits, was boiled and barred to the Micmac ; even 

 the Lower Gander was fraught with danger; for their im- 

 placable foes dwelt there or wandered there ; so that for many 

 years to come they only ventured into the forbidden enclave 

 with fear and trembling and under the English aegis. 



The third branch way led by Eastern Maelpeg Lake either 

 to the source of the Gander, and so down the Gander directly 

 to Notre Dame Bay or indirectly to Freshwater Bay, or down 

 Terranova River into Bonavista Bay, a few miles south of 

 Freshwater Bay. Cormack seems to have known only of the 

 Gander D' Espoir variation of this route ; and the Terranova 

 D' Espoir variation was mentioned indeed the Terranova 

 River itself was mentioned for the first time in 1840.* This 

 branch way admitted other variations and extensions, and in 

 1840 it was quite common for the Micmacs to strike the 

 headwaters of Piper's Hole, close by the Isthmus of Avalon, 

 from affluents of Eastern Maelpeg Lake, so that the Micmacs 

 could reach though ' they are seldom or never observed on the 

 eastern shores where the white man chiefly dwells'. 2 They 

 roamed from river to river between White and Bonne Bays and 

 the Bay of Islands, St. George, \Yhite Bear, D' Espoir, Fortune. 

 Placentia. Bonavista, and perhaps Gander Bays, even before 

 their fear of the Beolhics ceased ; and after their fear ceased 

 their travels were only shortened and multiplied ; their 

 arcs were turned into chords, and their rough paths were 

 made smooth. 



English- 

 men made 

 round trips 



6' avavra KU.TO.VTU. TrdpavTa re CJO^/MLU. T' rj\.@oi>. 

 Their man}- ways led up, down, across, and athwart the 

 body of the island, always by fresh water and never round its 



1 Jukes, op, fit., vol. ii, p. 10;. 



J Bonnycastle, op. fit., vol. i, pp. 212, 213. 



