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twenty-one male and twenty-five female, at the various stations. 

 The baptized membership of the entire district, which includes 

 practically all the Eskimo, was as follows, at the close of 1912: 



Total membership 1,216; including those under discipline 

 1,250. 



For the Ungava district and the east coast of Hudson bay, 

 we have no such definite figures. The best obtainable are those 

 published in the Geological Survey Annual Report, 1895, vol. 

 VIII, page 42L, which were supplied by Mr. Gray, for ten years 

 a clerk at Fort Chimo. He reckons the Eskimo by families, as 

 follows : 



From Cape Chidley to Hopes Advance 51 families 



About Hopes Advance 30 " 



From Stupart bay to Cape Wolstenholrne 80 " 



From Cape Wolstenholme to Great Whale river 80 " 



241 families 



Taking five persons to a family (a high average for the 

 Eskimo), the total population from Cape Chidley to Great 

 Whale river would be 1,205 persons, and the total: 



Cape Chidley to Great Whale river 1,205 persons 



Mission Eskimo 1,250 * 



Kara walla (Hamilton inlet) Eskimo 35 " 



Scattered survivors south of Hamilton inlet . , 5 " 



2,495 



or, in round numbers, a total of 2,500 Eskimo for the entire 

 Labrador peninsula. 



These figures look rather small after reading of the "hun- 

 dreds" of Eskimo met by early explorers and the 30,000 estimated 

 at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but are probably a 

 good criterion of past as well as present conditions, and the early 

 estimate of the Moravians of 3,000 for the Eskimo of the Labrador 

 coast can not be far wrong. 



TRIBAL DIVISIONS AND PLACE-NAMES. 



It is extremely unlikely that the Eskimo ever had tribal 

 names in the strict sense in which they are used by the Indians, 

 but they have certain place-names by which they designate the 



