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more often to Fort George or other posts on Hudson Bay. 
These probably belong to the division mentioned by Low 
in his large Labrador report as the coastal Indians of Hud- 
son Bay. Their dialect is not very easy for the other 
Indians to understand, probably from its Ojibway affinities. 
Those who come to Chimo are strong, active people, proud 
of their large hunts and of the long journeys they make to 
the coast. They look down a little on the Chimo Indians, 
many of whom hunt comparatively near by. The eastern 
Nascaupees, in particular, are not very ambitious either 
in fur hunting or travel. The caribou supply nearly all their 
wants, so that not much effort is required to get fur enough 
to pay for what else they require. Indians do not enter 
the wide peninsula to the west of Ungava, which is Eskimo 
ground so far as occupied. From Koksoak River to Hud- 
son Bay the respective areas covered by the two races are 
separated approximately by the line of the Nastapoka 
and Larch rivers, which constitute a route surveyed by 
Low, and pursued by Mr. and Mrs. Tasker of Philadelphia 
in 1906. 
The name Nascaupee is a slighting term given to the 
northern Indians by their more sophisticated neighbours 
of the south. Originally the word seems to have meant 
ignorant, unlearned, but is now connected usually with 
pagan or heathen people who have not had religious in- 
struction. In his very comprehensive report (1885-1886), 
published by the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 
Lucius M. Turner gives the name Nascaupee as meaning 
false, unworthy, and as connecting the people with a failure 
to join in some movement against the Eskimo in the old 
days; but this rendering seems etymologically doubtful. 
