THE RIVERS OF UVBRADOR. 13 



to its mouth. He had reached the fort from Ungava 

 Bay. Two other important rivers empty into Invuk- 

 toke Bay : the Kenamou, which flows in from the south, 

 and the Nasquapee or Northwest River, which is a larger 

 stream with a very circuitous southeasterly course. 



Professor Hind gives us the fullest information as to 

 the rivers of this region, and I should regard his map as, 

 in this respect, the most authentic one yet published. 

 The situations of the rivers and lakes as given in our 

 map are copied from his, with the exception of those on 

 the Atlantic coast mapped by Messrs. Reichel and 

 Weiz. Hind, however, strangely ignores the Esqui- 

 maux River, which empties into the Strait of Belle Isle.* 

 According to Hind, whose work appeared in 1863, and 

 who obtained his information from employes of the 

 Hudson Bay Company : "The couriers of the Hudson 

 Bay Company traverse the country between Musquano 

 (or Natashquan) and Hamilton Inlet two or three times 

 every year. The journey can be made in fifteen days 

 in canoes, and this route has long been a means of com- 

 munication between Hamilton Inlet and the Gulf. The 

 St. Augustine forms the great canoe route of the Mon- 

 tagnais through this part of the country. . . . The 



* "The Kenamou River, which enters Hamilton Inlet from the south, cuts 

 throQgh the Mealy Mountains thirty miles from the coast ; it is a succession of 

 rapids, and scarcely admits of navigation, even by canoes. The Nasquapee or 

 Northwest River falls into the inlet on the north side, nearly opposite the 

 mouth of the Kenamou. The inlet is here twelve miles across. About two 

 miles from its outlet the Nasquapee River passes through a long narrow lake 

 bordered by high mountains. It takes its source in Lake Meshikumau (Great 

 Lake), and the river itself, according to Indian custom, is called by the Nas- 

 quapees Meshikumau Shipu. There is a canoe communication between this 

 river and the Ashwanipi, which is shown on two maps, constructed by Montag- 

 nais Indians, in my possession." — Hind's " Labrador." ii., 138. 



