732 EAST COAST Or LABRADOR. 



Aillik bay. — Cape Aillik lies westward, distant 2 miles from cape 

 Mokkovik, and Aillik bay runs southward 5 miles from between them. 

 The bay is fringed by bowlders on the eastern side, where tliere is a 

 lagoon which is dry at low water, but the western shore is steep-to 

 for about 2^ miles inward, where is the trading post of the Hudson 

 Bay Company. A bank with 3 fathoms of water over it, which 

 breaks in bad weather, extends southward 1 mile from a position 

 about 300 yards off the trading post. 



There is good anchorage in Summer cove, the first indentation on 

 the western shore, in 10 fathoms of water, mud bottom, but westerly 

 winds are accompanied by heavy squalls. Anchorage may also be 

 obtained off the houses of the trading post, in 6 fathoms of water, 

 sand and rock bottom, with the two points on the western side of the 

 harbor touching, bearing 22°. 



Tides. — The tidal rise is 7 feet at springs. 



Fishery. — Net seal fishery has been prosecuted at Aillik for many 

 years, the principal varieties taken being the harp, crested, and 

 bearded seals. They generally precede the body of ice passing 

 southward. 



Water can be procured abundantly from a lake behind the houses, 

 and the boats lie on a smooth gravel beach, where a hose may be led 

 into them. Wood can also be obtained. 



Ice. — The harbors begin to freeze out to the deep water after the 

 middle of November and the northern ice arrives about December 10, 

 At the end of that month a straight edge, known as the " fast ice," is 

 formed from island to island several miles offshore, outside of which 

 ice flows continuously southward from December to June or July, and 

 the residents along the shore drive with komatiks and dogs to the 

 eastern edge to hunt for seals in the pools of the body as it passes 

 along. Toward the middle of January sheet ice appears, flowing 

 southward in the same manner, occasionally rafting 5 to 20 feet above 

 the sea. Small bergs are sometimes seen about this time. Westerly 

 winds prevail in winter, but there are occasional changes, usually of 

 short duration, to northerly and easterly winds, and sometimes south- 

 easterly; and a gale from the latter direction will cast the ice off- 

 shore for a few hours, but it will return as soon as the wind slackens 

 or changes its direction. 



Cape Aillik is a small islet 80 feet high, steep-to on its northern 

 side. 



Ice was reported here on August 24, 1875. 



Turnavik islands comprise a group situated northwestward 1^ 

 miles from cape Aillik. The largest and northern island is about 300 

 feet high toward its northeastern side, off which is a low islet. A 

 cluster of islets and rocks is situated southeastward of the largest 

 island and eastward of the southern; there is no passage between 



