1885.] and their former range Southward. 475 
at all the places we stopt att.” From the foregoing extract it is 
obvious that Capt. Coats obtained his knowledge of the Labra- 
dor Indians and the Eskimo from his personal observations and 
inquiries while in Hudson’s bay; he personally only by hearsay 
received information that the Eskimo, by whalers called “ Hus- 
kies,” lived as far south as St. Lawrence bay; but his statement 
will be seen to be confirmed by Crantz. The northern Indians 
mentioned by Coats are undoubtedly the Naskopies. 
The following extracts from the appendix to Crantz’ History 
of Greenland, English translation, fully prove that several hun- 
dred Eskimo spent the summer at Chateau bay opposite the 
north-eastern extremity of Newfoundland, 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; Chris- 
tian Erbard, 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 
Eskimo, the vessel returning to England, The next attempt to 
approach the Eskimo was made in I 764, 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 Newfound- 
land, 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 
Chateau bay, on the southern coast of Labrador; here, however, 
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 north-east extremity of Newfoundland, in the 
Strait of Belle Isle, where he had the first interview with the 
natives. “The 4th September,” he writes in his journal, ‘ was 
the happy day when I saw an Esquimaux arrive in the harbor. I 
tan to meet him and addressed him in Greenlandic. He was 
astonished to hear his own language from the mouth of an Euro- 
oken French.” The next day eigh- 
pean, and answered me in br 
teen returned his visit. On the third day the Eskimo left the 
harbor altogether, and after a short stay at Quirpont, Haven 
returned to Newfoundland. 
