578 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 
3. Second Report on Investigations in the Indian Ocean. 
See Reports, p. 551. 
4, Interim Report on Rainfall and Lake and River Discharge. 
See Reports, p. 353. 
5, Interim Report on the Oscillations of the Level of the Land in the 
Mediterranean Basin.—See Reports, p. 350. 
6. A Zraverse of Two unexplored Rivers of Labrador. 
By Mrs. Leonipas Husparp, Junior. 
The Labrador peninsula comprises that portion of British North America 
lying east of Hudson Bay and north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It is a vast 
rocky plateau, its slopes cut by valleys into which flow the waters of its thousands 
of lakes and streams in a mad rush to the sea. 
The journey across the north-eastern portion of the peninsula by way of the 
Nascaupee and George Rivers was undertaken by Mrs. Hubbard for the purpose of 
completing the mission of exploration which in 1903 had cost her husband 
his life. She left North-west River Post, near the head of Lake Melville or 
Grosswater Bay, on June 27,1905. Her crew numbered four; the outfit included 
two canoes and 750 lb. of provisions, with two rifles, three single-shot pistols, and 
one revolver. The first task was the tracing of the Nascaupee River to its source. 
The river descends from its source at the height of 1,675 feet above the sea, by what 
may be termed a series of steps. The larger part of the descent is by rapids, only 
a few falls occurring, and those of no great height. A comparison showed a drop 
of 1,600 feet in 137 miles in the case of the Nascaupee, but only 224 feet of fall in 
113 miles in the swiftest part of the St. Lawrence. 
Five weeks of struggle with the rapids found the party encamped on August 2 
on the shores of Lake Michikaman, a great interior lake; and on August 10 the 
final source of the Nascaupee River on the Height of Land was reached. Here the 
travellers were in the midst of the caribou country. On August 8 a herd of some 
thousands was seen, and for fifty miles of the journey the country was alive with 
them, the beautiful creatures approaching sometimes to within 20 feet or 30 feet 
of the camp. 
The source of the George River was located immediately beyond the Height of 
Land in Lake Hubbard. It isa tiny stream as it first steals away northward ; 
but in the three hundred miles of its course it gathers force and volume till at its 
discharge into Ungava Bay it is a great river three miles in width. The upper part 
of each of the rivers consists of a series of lake expansions of varying sizes. Some 
sixty miles from its source the George River drops from the plain of the lakes 
through three narrow gorges, and thenceforward flows in a distinct valley. 
Two bands of Indians were encountered, both of which received the travellers 
in a friendly manner. The first, who were of the Montagnais tribe, were camped 
on Resolution Lake, about fifty miles from the Height of Land. Only the women 
and children were there, the hunters having gone to the coast to trade for winter 
supplies. Fifty miles below, the Nascaupee camp was visited. These Indians 
are probably the least known and most primitive of the tribes of North America. 
Some were dressed entirely in deerskins. 
The most thrilling part of the journey was the descent of the last 132 miles of 
the George River, Hs ae it flows in almost continuous rapids through country 
becoming more and more mountainous, rugged, and barren, till in the last fifty 
miles the banks become gradually lower as the river nears the sea. The journey 
of about six hundred miles was made in sixty-one days, the party arriving at the 
Hudson Bay Company’s Post near Ungava Bay on August 27. 
7. Notes on British New Guinea. By Dr. W. M. Strona. 
