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the first channel, or " the narrows," as it is called, are Indian Village and Rig- 

 oulette, — the latter the most important station hereabouts; and formerly, I 

 believe, if not now, connected with the Hudson's Bay Company. The river, 

 which flows into this inlet and is called by the natives Esquimaux river, is 

 the largest and most important in all Labrador. It is the terminus of the 

 French and English settlements on the coast : below it the Dutch and Esquimaux 

 are the chief and more often the only inhabitants, to Ungava Bay itself which 

 borders the entrance to Hudson's Bay. 



These almost mongrel inhabitants are known chiefly by the names of their 

 villages, as the people of Umiakkoviktanuk or Cape Strawberry, which is some 

 1 200 feet above the sea, in the background of which is Altagaiyaivik or Monkey 

 Hill, said to be over 2000 feet high. Next comes a post of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany at Aillik, and one on the opposite side of the bay at Kaipokok. Towards 

 the sea are the Gull rocks, called by the musical (?) name of Nanyaktikiluk, 

 and farther along Gull island or Nanyaksigaluk. On the mainland nearly 

 opposite Gull island comes the important Mission station of Hopedale. Be- 

 low this is Nain, the next important Moravian mission. East of Nain is 

 Tunnulusoak or Pownal or Paul Island, the place so often quoted as abound- 

 ing in Labradorite. Okkuk, followed by Port Manvers and Hebron, other 

 missionary stations follow while Cape Chudleigh (or Chidley as some give it) 

 forms the northern terminus, from which this promontory descends to Un- 

 gava Bay the northern boundary of the Labrador Peninsula. Of the interior of 

 this vast plateau little or nothing is known. The blackflies and mosquitoes form 

 an almost impassable barrier to investigation; try it once and you will thor- 

 oughly believe it. 



