HOLMES EXPLORATIONS. 23I 



of manuscript maps of Hudson Strait, which, however, 

 have not been published." 



Very full and detailed information regarding the re- 

 gion of Fort Chimo is contained in the report of Mr. L. 

 M. Turner to the U. S. Signal Bureau, which has not 

 yet been published. But until some explorers cross the 

 peninsula from Fort Chimo to Nain or Hopedale, and 

 also ascend the Esquimaux River to its source, we shall 

 be much in the dark regarding the nature of the interior 

 of Labrador. An attempt to penetrate the interior from 

 the head of Eskimo Bay (Lake Melville) was made in 

 1887 by Mr. Randle F. Holme, whose interesting ac- 

 count, illustrated by an excellent map of the entire Lab- 

 rador peninsula, appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, April, 1888. We have found his 

 map of great service in compiling that of Southern Lab- 

 rador in the present book. 



Mr. Holme tells us that on one occasion Pere Lacasse, 

 the Roman Catholic missionary to the Indians, journeyed 

 from Mingan to Northwest River by the Mingan and 

 Kenamou rivers, and from Northwest River to Ungava 

 by the Nascopee and Waquash rivers. 



Mr. Holme ascended the Grand River, which empties 

 into Aivuktok Bay, as far as Lake Waminikapou, his 

 point of departure being the Hudson Bay post of Rigolet. 

 After exploring the mouths of Gudder's Bight River, of 

 the Kenamish, the Kenamou, and the Travespines River, 

 Mr. Holme ascended the Grand River 150 miles, to a 

 point within 50 miles of the Grand Falls, whose height 

 is unknown, but which he regards as with little doubt 

 " the most stupendous falls in the world." The river is 

 said by Maclean to be 500 yards broad above the falls. 



