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phonetics. Our authorities for the names were the various 

 charts, the Nezvfoundland and Labrador Pilot, Mr. George 

 Ford, of Nachvak, and Rev. Wolf Stecker, of Ramah. Dr. 

 Daly, in his report, has used the versions of the latter, whom 

 he regards as "the only one I have come across who can give 

 authoritative opinions on Eskimo." I should have preferred 

 to have used the same spellings and forms in all cases as Dr. 

 Daly ; but unfortunately his report has come to me too late 

 to make the necessary changes in my text, and I was previ- 

 ously unaware of the names as given by Stecker. The differ- 

 ences are not numerous, and apply almost exclusively to the 

 region about Nachvak, for which I have used names as given 

 by Mr. Ford. I call attention in footnotes to the most im- 

 portant of the variations. 



To Professor Packard and President Faunce, of Brown 

 University, and President Eliot, of Harvard, I apologize for 

 the use of their names as designations of mountains. The 

 exaggerations of certain unauthorized newspaper accounts 

 soon after our return may have given them unpleasant asso- 

 ciations, but I trust that these may have long since disap- 

 peared. Dr. Daly, in his map of Nachvak Bay, reproduced 

 herewith, shows two of these mountains, but does not use 

 their names ; and he writes me that "the mountains are really 

 not sufficiently prominent even in Labrador to merit those 

 particular names." It is true that there are loftier summits in 

 Labrador, and that had we found and climbed them we should 

 have reserved these names for the worthiest of them. But 

 they were the highest unnamed peaks with which we came 

 into intimate contact; as will be seen from my frequent de- 

 scriptive and botanical references to them, it was essential 

 to give them some distinctive label ; and we hope that the 



