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able amount of trading, in addition to their work of educating 

 and Christianizing the natives. We made acquaintance with 

 a number of the missionaries, at Hopedale, Nain, Hebron, 

 and Ramah. They live two or three together, with their 

 families, at each place. We found them kindly, earnest, 

 helpful men, who are doing a good work among the Eskimos. 



The Hudson's Bay Company maintains a number of 

 posts along the Atlantic coast. We visited but one of them, 

 that at Nachvak. There were but very few Eskimos en- 

 camped about the bay — there are only about 80 in all be- 

 tween Ramah and Cape Chidley. George Ford, the agent, 

 has lived at Nachvak with his family since 1877. He has 

 few visitors. The company's steamer puts in twice a year. 

 Captain Bradford, who maintains a fishing station at Cape 

 Chidley, calls there occasionally, as does also Dr. Grenfell, 

 of the Medical Mission. Visits are usually interchanged 

 with Ramah each winter. But otherwise hardly any one 

 ever comes. Ours was the first schooner that had been there 

 for many years. 



White Settlers and Summer Fishermen. — There are com- 

 paratively few permanent white settlers on the Atlantic coast, 

 aside from those connected with the above-mentioned posts. 

 The total number in Labrador, from Blanc Sablon, on the 

 shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to Cape Chidley, is given 

 by the Newfoundland census of 1891 as 3,106. But of these 

 probably not more than one hundred live north of Hamilton 

 Inlet. We met two as far north as Black Island, near 

 Port Manvers, and none beyond. They support themselves 

 by trapping and fishing. Their rude settlements, composed 

 of a few rough shanties and fishing stages, with possibly a 

 store and a church, are fairly numerous in the south; though 



