TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 
every spring, preparatory to their flight over- 
land of 500 miles across the broad isthmus to 
Hudson Bay. Their migration does not stop 
here, for they continue on to the far north, as 
they are not known to nest south of the 83d 
degree. This migration takes place between 
the last week of May and the first two or three 
weeks of June, and as we traversed the bay 
going east on May 24th, and returned on June 
22d, we missed the migration almost entirely, al- 
though we obtained from several hunters and 
Indian-traders a very satisfactory description 
of it. We did see, however, one laggard brant 
hurriedly flying north across the bay on June 
22d, the last of the mighty throngs that had 
preceded him. 
Jacques Cartier visited this beautiful bay in 
1539. One can imagine what his sensations 
must have been as he sailed day after day up 
this mighty gulf and river, entering as he 
thought the direct waterway to the mysterious 
East. Sir Humphrey Gilbert wrote in Hakluyt’s 
Voyages: ‘“‘ Jacques Cartier . . . heard say at 
Hochelaga in Nova Francia how that there 
was a great sea at Saguinay, whereof the end 
was not knowen: which they presupposed to 
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