TO THE STARTING-POINT 



dor for the whole peninsula, and it can be done 

 without fear of confusion if the qualifying 

 terms Ungava, Newfoundland, and Canadian 

 are used. The population of this huge penin- 

 sula has been estimated to be fifteen thousand. 

 This includes thirty-five hundred Indians and 

 two thousand Eskimos. The interior is in- 

 habited by the Indians alone; the whites and 

 Eskimos live only on the coast. The population 

 in summer is increased by about twenty-five 

 thousand Newfoundland fishermen who visit 

 the eastern and southern coasts. 



At the town of Seven Islands, which con- 

 tains a Hudson's Bay Company's post, an 

 Indian village, and the seat of the Bishop of 

 the Catholic missions of the coast, we ran 

 aground attempting to reach the newly built 

 wharf. We backed out, anchored, and waited 

 a couple of hours for a higher tide. One would 

 have thought it was a band of emigrants that 

 huddled together for shelter on the wharf at 

 ten that night, but it was only a party of ladies 

 and gentlemen and a charming baby going to 

 a salmon-fishing camp on Trout River. Mr. 

 William Kakas, well known on this coast as a 

 fur-trader, also disembarked here. 



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