CHAPTER VIII 
THE MISSIONS 
By W. T. GRENFELL 
The Moravian Mission 
Ir a man in Labrador is not a fisherman, that is, a cod- 
catcher, he traps fur-bearing animals in winter and catches 
salmon in summer. The trappers form a class apart from 
the rest of the shore people. They seldom come out “to 
the coast,’”’ their winter industry keeping them far inland 
and their summer salmon-catching being convenient in not 
forcing them to transfer their families very far down the 
bays. There is, however, every gradation, from the moun- 
taineer Indian, who does nothing all the year but trap and 
kill deer, through the Eskimo, who once only killed seals, 
but now even catches furs and “fishes,” to the man who 
lives entirely “out of the water,” z.e. never outfits for the 
winter furring. 
Until 1905 the trade of all these people was carried on 
by two great companies, the Hudson’s Bay Company and 
the Moravian Missions. The Hudson’s Bay Company 
originally dealt only with Indians, but the intermarriage 
and settling of their own imported servants have built up 
a class which beats the Indians at their own industry, and 
now does a far larger trade in fur. The Indians are reduced 
to a mere handful, while the strong Scotch and Norwegian 
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