274 THE LABRADOR ESKIMOS AND THEIR FORMER RANGE. 



It is interesting to note tiiat Reichel gives some facts 

 showing the former (perhaps temporary) occupation by- 

 Greenland Eslcimos of some of the outer islands of the 

 northern part of the coast. At Kernertulik on Okkak 

 Island is a cave where traces of a Greenlander's house are 

 still to be seen. Javranat, on the mainland near Okkak, 

 is so called from the Greenlander's word Javra, meaning 

 "frightful," in allusion to a tragedy in which many Es- 

 kimos perished, having been beaten by the strategy of 

 their Greenland assailants. Reichel also states that in 

 early times the Eskimos were feared on account of their 

 robberies, which were often accompanied by murder and 

 manslaughter, as far down in general as Newfoundland. 



Rev. J. J. Curling states : " By the last census in 1884 

 the number of inhabitantsof the coast from Blanc Sablon 

 up to Cape Chudleigh was 4,211. From Hamilton In- 

 let to Cape Chudleigh there were 1,425, of whom only 

 60 were Europeans." (Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc, Lon- 

 don, X. 193, April, 1888.) 



Our imperfect account of the Eskimos of the Mora- 

 vian settlements may be supplemented by the following 

 remarks translated from Dr. K. R. Koch's excellent ar- 

 ticle in the " Bremen Geographical Journal " for 1884, as 

 he spent thirteen months at Nain, and had excellent op- 

 portunities for observing these people, and obtaining 

 information regarding their life during the different sea- 

 sons of the year: 



" While the marriages of the Eskimos are often child- 

 less and the greater number of the children die young, 

 the families of the white settlers are usually very robust, 

 and the children strong and healthy, while the mortality 

 is low. The number of the settlers increases therefore 



