250 THE LABRADOR ESKIMOS AND THEIR FORMER RANGE. 



be confirmed by Crantz. The northern Indians men- 

 tioned by Coats are undoubtedly the Naskopies. 



The following extracts from the appendix to Crantz's 

 History of Greenland, English translation, fully prove 

 that several hundred Eskimos spent the summer at Cha- 

 teau Bay opposite the northeastern extremity of New- 

 foundland, and also crossed over to the latter island, and 

 must have been, for several years at least, residents on 

 the shores of the Strait of Belle Isle. The first visit of 

 the Moravians to the Labrador coast was in 1752 ; 

 Christian Erhard, a Dutchman, but a member of the 

 Moravian Society, landed in July in Nisbet's Haven, 

 with a boat's crew of five men, at a point north of this 

 harbor, where all were murdered by the Eskimos, the ves- 

 sel returning to England. The next attempt to approach 

 the Eskimos was made in 1764, by Jens Haven, who had 

 labored for several years as a missionary in Greenland, 

 and had recently returned with Crantz to Germany. 

 With letters of introduction to Hugh Palliser, Esq., the 

 governor of Newfoundland, in May of the same year he 

 arrived at St. Johns ; " but he had to meet with many 

 vexatious delays before he reached his destination, every 

 ship with which he engaged refusing to land for fear of 

 the Esquimaux. He was at length set on shore in Cha- 

 teau Bay, on the southern coast of Labrador ; here, how- 

 ever, he found no signs of population except several 

 scattered tumuli, with the arrows and implements of the 

 dead deposited near them. Embarking again he finally 

 landed on the island of Quirpont or Quiveron, off the 

 northeast extremity of Newfoundland, in the Strait of 

 Belle Isle, where he had the first interview with the na- 

 tives." " The 4th September," he writes in his journal. 



