30 CHALLENGER 



When the triangulation was complete the ship and boats com- 

 menced sounding the area to the west of Carriacou, the two boats 

 working from a camp estabHshed at Hillsborough, a village on the 

 west side of Carriacou. Twice during May and June the ship had 

 to go to Port of Spain, Trinidad, for fuel and on such occasions 

 she left the boats working from the camp at Hillsborough, which 

 was now well established, having friendly relations with the in- 

 habitants of the village where exciting football matches were 

 played on a sandy pitch thinly covered in grass, near the seashore, 

 these matches being enthusiastically followed by the great 

 majority of the villagers. 



Early in July the camp party was embarked, the triangulation 

 flags on the hills taken down and the sites of these stations 

 permanently marked by brass plates set in concrete. The western 

 part of the survey was complete and the ship sailed on ^^th July 

 for Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Nain in Labrador to carry on with 

 last year's survey there. 



Although the ship reached the coast of Labrador on 2 ist July, 

 only about a week later than the previous year, the ice situation 

 was much clearer this year and the passage northwards simpler. 

 The ship anchored in the Davis Inlet so that the Captain might 

 visit the senior Hudson Bay Company trader here to make early 

 arrangements for winter clothing and other supplies needed for 

 the winter party and required to be sent north to Nain. He was 

 not the only visitor to the store as a party of Nascaupee Indians, 

 numbering about 80, were camped along the shore making their 

 summer visit for trade with Hudson Bay Company and to meet 

 the Catholic priest. They appeared filthy and were clad in rags 

 of deerskin; their dwellings were of both the ridge and the 

 pointed type of tent, covered with any old canvas, with a hole in 

 the top from which issued smoke from a fire within. From the 

 ship, watching through binoculars, it was amazing to see up to 

 a dozen Indians coming out of a tent which one would have 

 thought would be crowded with two persons inside. The H.B.C. 

 trader was the only white man in Davis Inlet ; he had two or three 

 native assistants. There were no Eskimos here. The Indians come 

 and go, travelling and hunting the country from Ungava to the 

 St. Lawrence River. For travel they used light canoes weighing 



