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north. About a hundred miles north of it is Nachvak Bay, 

 also long- and narrow. Between them the coast is much in- 

 dented, containing a host of small bays, and also two of 

 larger size — Saglek* and Nullatartok. At the entrance to the 

 latter is situated Ramah, the most northerly of the Moravian 

 Missions in Labrador. The intervening country is traversed 

 never, probably, by white men, unless a portion of it in the 

 winter by dog-sledge,t but not infrequently by Eskimos, who 

 have regular routes across it. Transportation across the 

 bays is easy to secure because of a summer fishing settlement 

 of Eskimos on the shore of Saglek, of the mission station at 

 Ramah. and of the Hudson's Bay Company's post at Nach- 

 vak. 



These facts we learned from Mr. Townley. one of the 

 missionaries at Hebron. Adams and the writer, eager to 

 do some interior exploration, decided to make this trip, 

 leaving the schooner to go on when it could to Nachvak. 

 We secured as guide Amandus, a young Eskimo, who knew 

 the way as far as Ramah. For his services we were to pay 

 fifty cents a day and provide him with food, tobacco, and 

 transportation in the schooner back to Hebron. 



The morning of Sunday, August 19, was devoted to 

 preparations for departure. Of provisions we took enough 

 for a week, consisting chiefly of compressed emergency 

 ration and ship's biscuit. Our further equipment included 



* More commonly spelled Saeglek. 



t The dog-sledges for the most part travel on the ice along the coast. 

 One white man, named Colley, is said to have walked, a number of years 

 ago, along the entire coast from far south through Hebron to Nachvak, 

 and thence across to George River. Nothing is known of his ante- 

 cedents or real purpose; he claimed to be in search of a brother. He 

 was probably mentally unsound, and at George River he committed 

 suicide. 



