THE INDIANS 195 
difficulty when the face is stiff with cold. It may be noted 
that the Scotch and English, whose relative facility in 
catching the Indian sounds has been remarked, have also 
a long inheritance of northern conditions. 
Eastward from Mingan the people travel the Natashquan, 
St. Augustine, and Eskimo rivers. Their lands are chiefly 
in the region between the Hamilton and the St. Lawrence. 
Southward from the Mealy Mountains of Hamilton Inlet 
and the Sandwich Bay coast lies an indefinite, unmapped 
area of high territory, partly barren, where large lakes 
supply the rough rivers passing north, east, and south. 
In winter, white or Eskimo-white hunters penetrate one 
or two hundred miles into this area. .The Hamilton River 
also is hunted by the shore people. These go up in the 
fall in boats, returning on snow. The inland life of these 
shore-dwelling hunters is as little like that of the Indians 
as well may be. Their winter method is to take what 
supplies can be hauled on sleds by hand, set traps along their 
route, the length of which is determined somewhat by snow 
conditions, and take up the catch of fur on their return 
march. They are known as “ planters’; their occupation 
is ‘“furring.” © Cabins are built by some at strategic points, 
and these ‘tilts’? may be taken as the sign of white blood 
in the land. The Indian, held to no base, uses the movable 
lodge only. The shore hunter is bound, his campaign 
limited, by his large dependence on transported provisions. 
If half-emancipated from, or better, only half-subjugated 
by, “the white man’s burden,’’ he lacks yet the full inherit- 
ance, the ferity, which saves existence to the Indian born. 
The broad difference between the two, the fur catcher and 
the Indian, is that between hunting and the hunting life. 
