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Their immediate neighbours call the eastern Nascaupees 
Mushauau-eo, ‘“ Barren-ground People,” and their principal 
river, the George, is known to all Indians as Mushauau 
Shibo, or “ Barren-ground River.”’ 
The Nascaupees’ name for themselves is Nenenot, “True 
or Ideal People.’ Literally this seems to mean “Our Own 
People,’’ which, after all, in the minds of most races comes 
to much the same thing. These meanings have been 
quoted by a recent traveller, Wallace, who gives some of 
the information gathered during a visit at Chimo. His 
statement regarding the Indians’ extreme fear of the sea 
seems at least exaggerated. He describes them as afraid 
to even look upon the sea below Chimo. On the contrary, 
Mr. Guy, long resident at Chimo, has observed little feeling 
of the sort. During his time there a young white man 
while hunting was drowned in a lake on a stream emptying 
into the bay. Some Indians not only went down to the 
sea by canoe and around to recover the body, but made 
the trip a second time to find the rifle. In the recent ob- 
servation of some Chimo hunters on the Atlantic side, they 
took very readily to salt water, boating and canoeing under 
reasonable conditions. If unnecessary canoeing about Un- 
gava with its forty- to sixty-foot tides and notoriously 
bad navigation has small attraction for them, the circum- 
stance is not to be taken as phenomenal. None who has 
actually voyaged with these masters of the open canoe is 
likely to believe them water-timid. Turner says these 
Indians bear cold as well as the Eskimo do, although under 
starvation they do not hold their working strength so well. 
The little children certainly show astonishing indifference to 
cold. 
