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lower waters were covered with floating car- 

 casses. 



Much meat and many skins were spoiled for 

 the want of quick attention. After the battle 

 the Indians gorged themselves to such a state 

 of repletion, that it rendered them unfit for ex- 

 ertion, but a just God frequently punished them 

 during the bitter weather of the following win- 

 ter by starvation, and whole families succumbed 

 for want of the very food they so wantonly 

 wasted in the autumn. 



The Hudson's Bay Company had a post 

 years ago on Lake Mis-a-ka-ma right on the ta- 

 bleland between Ungava bay and the Canadian 

 Labrador coast, for the trading of deer skins, 

 both dressed and in the parchment state. One 

 year the skins were in such numbers that the 

 boats of the brigade could not carry the whole 

 to the coast, and bales of them had to be win- 

 tered over to the next year. 



The Labrador has been for many years the 

 base of supplies for fish and rabbit districts, 

 where the natives have no deer to make mocca- 

 sins, mitts and shirts, and the parchment for 

 their snowshoe knitting. 



These deer skins take a round about route to 

 reach their destination, being in the first place 

 shipped from Ungava, or Nigolette, to London, 

 and after passing the winter in London, are re- 



