202 A summer's CRUISE TO NORTHERN LABRADOR. 



than Hopedale. Mr. Vollpracht told me that a large 

 fresh-water snail {Limncea, near elodes) was abundant in 

 a lake at Okkak. The collection of birds' eggs was a 

 good one, and they also had skulls of the polar and 

 black bears and of seals, which they sold to us. I also 

 purchased a valuable collection of insects, principally 

 butterflies and moths, obtained at Okkak. We visited 

 the rather large cemetery, well laid out and fenced in^ 

 situated in a level spot where the soil was deeper than 

 elsewhere : at one end were the graves of the mission- 

 aries, over which memorial slabs were laid ; a large 

 mound marked the last resting-place of Superintendent 

 Kruth, while among the others was an infant's grave ;: 

 at the opposite end of the yard were the short graves of 

 the Eskimos. 



There were six little gardens, each perhaps belonging 

 to a separate family. They were laid out like those in 

 the fatherland, with clumps of spruce and larches, em- 

 bracing a summer-house, a rustic seat, and a grass-plot. 

 There were also rows of hot-beds, where they rear let- 

 tuce from plants raised in the house, yielding them salad 

 in May. Turnips were well forward, onions were in 

 bud, currant bushes two feet high were in blossom, as 

 well as potatoes, which were six inches high, and the 

 rhubarb was quite luxuriant in its growth, its flowers 

 having been open for some time. 



The Eskimos were ready enough to traffic, though 

 slow at first to bring out their wares, which consisted of 

 birds' eggs, principally those of robins and murres, 

 models of kayaks and oomiaks, as well as sleds in 

 bone and seal-skin. From one of them, named Caspar, 

 a lame boy who had lived ten years in Hamilton Inlet 



