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at the head of Melville Lake (Hamilton Inlet); this river 
will be specially described in Dr. Low’s chapter on ‘“‘ Ham- 
ilton River and Grand Falls.” 
For hunting, the places least disturbed by man are 
naturally apt to be the best. In the autumn almost all 
the bays abound in geese and ducks. One may be rather 
sure of geese at the entrance to Hamilton Inlet, at the head 
of Lane’s Bay, at the entrance of Table Bay, in Goose Bay 
near Cartwright, and in Byron’s Bay. Other likely places 
are Partridge and Rocky bays, and also at all the flats near 
the mouths of the big rivers. The autumn deer-hunting 
is, so far as known to me, most likely to be successful in 
Davis Inlet, on the hills about Nain, inside Cape Mugford, 
at the head of Makkovik Bay and on the hills above Stag 
Bay and False Bay. After Christmas deer are to be found 
in abundance within reach of the settlers on the southern 
part of the coast. Black bears are most likely to be en- 
countered where the settlers are fewest in number and where 
the caplin come to the land-wash near the woods. Many 
bears are killed every year in Hawke’s Bay. They are also 
found in the fiords between Davis Inlet and Nain. White 
bears are found in small numbers on the northern parts of 
the coast, where they remain all summer to feed on the 
eggs and young of the countless ducks and geese. 
Those who wish to study the Eskimo should go to Nain, 
and then farther north. To see them in anything like 
their primitive condition one should go as far as Ramah, 
and, if possible, to Nachvak and Ungava. In the northern 
fiords are many relics of the stone-age out of which these 
people are just passing; many articles of ancient make may 
be found by travelling in the gravel-beaches. To see the 
