HOPEDALE HAKBOR DEEP INLET. 735 



and about 150 others live in the district. A few stunted trees grow 

 at the settlement. The natives state that caribou, formerly plentiful, 

 are now rare within 40 miles of Hopedale. Timber is also less abun- 

 dant than it was, in consequence of destructive forest fires. 



Ice.^ — -The harbor freezes over occasionally in the first week of 

 September. 



Water is abundant, but the watering place is inconvenient for boats. 

 Wood is scarce and must be brought from a distance of 8 to 10 miles. 



Connnunication. — The Labrador steamer to and from St. Johns, 

 via Battle harbor, calls at Hopedale fortnightly during summer. 



Winds. — The prevailing winds on the coast in the vicinity of Hope- 

 dale are off the land or from the -southwesterly quadrant. Strong 

 northwesterly to westerly squalls, which last an hour or two, occur 

 during August, and occasionally there is a thunder storm with much 

 rain. 



The barometer is generally low, and may not indicate the approach 

 of bad weather. The weather has been fine with the barometer at 

 29.45 inches, and on wind and rain setting in the barometer has risen. 



Current. — The current on the coast almost invariably sets south- 

 eastward, unless counteracted by southeasterly and easterly gales. 



Deep inlet. — The northwestern arm of this inlet, which lies south- 

 eastward of Hopedale, is reported to be about 20 miles long, with 

 deep water throughout, to the mouth of a fine river flowing into its 

 head. 



• There is a small hut at the mouth of the river, used by a fisherman 

 who nets the salmon there. Salmon of 40 to 50 pounds in weight 

 go up the river. 



Tracks — Caution. — Mariners are warned that this coast, with the 

 islands off it, is only partially surveyed, and that every precaution 

 should be taken when navigating in the vicinity. 



Holton to Aillik, by tlie inner track. — From eastward about 

 ^ mile from Holton island, steer to pass between Tinker island and 

 Quaker reef, and thence direct to cape Harrison, passing close north- 

 eastward of Bear island. 



From cape Harrison steer to leave both Smoky islet and Webeck 

 island about ^ mile to the southward, and then to pass close north- 

 westward of the small islet, 60 feet high, off Double island. From 

 this islet a course of 248°, for TyV miles, leads northwestward 

 of Double island and southeastward of the next islet, when steer to 

 pass between Dog islands and the mainland. Eound the islet, just 

 westward of the western of the Dog islands, and steer to pass north- 

 eastward of the island with two summits and the grassy islet off it, 

 and southwestward of Conical island. From Conical island steer 

 349°, which course leads, at the distance of 7 miles, to the northeast- 

 ward of the islets off Manak island ; at 9 miles, westward of a double 



