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From another informant the place-names of the Eskimo 

 from Cape Chidley south were obtained, completing the list: 



Killi'nurjmiut, "land's end people," Cape Chidley. 



Kom'hicu'amiut, Okkak. 



Nirne"r)irmiut, Nain. 



A"vitirmiut, Hopedale. 



Aivitu"miut, "whaling-place people," Rigolet. 



Netce"tirmiut, "sealing-place people," Cartwright (Sand- 

 wich bay). 



Pirtla"va-miut, Battle harbour. 



RACIAL BOUNDARIES. 



The coastal habitation of the Labrador Eskimo is broken only 

 at Davis inlet, on the Atlantic coast, v/here the Eastern Naskapi 

 come out yearly to the Hudson's Bay Company post to trade. 

 The factor here informed me that the trade was almost entirely 

 Indian. Parallel cases might be cited in Alaska, where the 

 Copper River Indians (Atnah Dene) have broken through the 

 Eskimo boundary at Cooks inlet, and the break between the 

 Eskimo on the east and west sides of Hudson bay, where the 

 Cree occupy the territory at the bottom of the bay. 



The vast wilderness forming the "interior country" of the 

 Labrador peninsula is inhabited by the Naskapi and Montagnais 

 Indians. The Naskapi are found north and the Montagnais 

 south of the height of land. Low, in his admirable report of 

 the Labrador interior in the Geological Survey Annual Report, 

 1895, pages 44-45L, gives the following definite boundaries for 

 the Indians and Eskimo: 



"The Montagnais inhabit the country extending south of 

 a line drawn westward from Hamilton inlet, to the headwaters 

 of the St. Maurice river. The Nauscaupees inhabit the interior 

 country north of this line, or from the bottom of James bay 

 eastward to Hamilton inlet. The northern limit of their ter- 

 ritory [the Naskapi's] is marked by the Koksoak river, from 

 its mouth to the Stillwater branch, and by this stream west- 

 ward to its head in the neighbourhood of Clearwater lake, 

 and thence westward to Richmond gulf on Hudson bay (see 

 map). This line divides the Indian territory from that 



