TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 



every spring, preparatory to their flight over- 

 land of 500 miles across the broad isthmus to 

 Hudson Bay. Their migration does not stop 

 here, for they continue on to the far north, as 

 they are not known to nest south of the 83d 

 degree. This migration takes place between 

 the last week of May and the first two or three 

 weeks of June, and as we traversed the bay 

 going east on May 24th, and returned on June 

 22d, we missed the migration almost entirely, al- 

 though we obtained from several hunters and 

 Indian-traders a very satisfactory description 

 of it. We did see, however, one laggard brant 

 hurriedly flying north across the bay on June 

 22d, the last of the mighty throngs that had 

 preceded him. 



Jacques Cartier visited this beautiful bay in 

 1539. One can imagine what his sensations 

 must have been as he sailed day after day up 

 this mighty gulf and river, entering as he 

 thought the direct waterway to the mysterious 

 East. Sir Humphrey Gilbert wrote in Hakluyt's 

 Voyages: " Jacques Cartier . . . heard say at 

 Hochelaga in Nova Francia how that there 

 was a great sea at Saguinay, whereof the end 

 was not knowen: which they presupposed to 



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