476 Notes on the Labrador Eskimo [ May, 
The following year Haven, with three other missionaries, 
landed, July 17,1765, in Chateau bay, lat. 52°, on the south 
shore of Labrador, opposite Belle Isle. “ Here the party sepa- 
rated; Haven and Schlotzer engaging with another vessel, to 
explore the coast northwards; they did not, however, accomplish 
anything material in this expedition, nor did they meet with a 
single Esquimaux the whole time. Drachart and John Hill 
remained in Chateau bay, and were fortunate enough to have the 
company of several hundred Esquimaux, for upwards of a month; 
during which period they had daily opportunities of intercourse. 
As soonas Sir Thomas Adams had received intelligence that they 
had pitched their tents at a place twenty miles distant, he sailed 
thither to invite them, in the name of the governor, to Pitts har- 
bor. On the approach of the ship the savages in the kajaks 
hailed them with shouts of Tout camarade, oui Hu! and the crew 
returned the same salutation. Mr. Drachart did not choose to 
join in the cry, but told Sir Thomas that he could converse with 
the natives in their own language? When the tumult had sub-. 
sided he took one of them by the hand and said in Greenlandic 
“We are friends.” The savage replied, “We are also thy 
friends.” 
Crantz then describes from the notes of Haven and Drachart, 
the peninsula of Labrador and some of the animals as well as the 
habits of the Eskimos. These people remained at Chateau bay 
through the summer until at least after the middle of September, 
as on Sept. 12th and 13th the shallop ran ashore, and the Eskimo 
invited them to lodge in their tents, carrying the missionaries 
ashore on their backs, 
The following extract shows that the Eskimo must, before the. 
year 1765, have been in the habit of crossing the Straits of Belle 
Isle and landing on Newfoundland : 
“The governor wished to prevent them from crossing over to 
Newfoundland, where, according to their own account, they pro- 
cured a certain kind of wood not to be found in their country, of 
which they made their darts. But since they interpreted this 
prohibition as a breach of peace, it was rescinded, on their 
promise to commit no depredation on the fishing vessels they 
might meet with on the way; to which engagement they scrupu- 
_lously adhered.” 
_ The account then goes on to say that during the interval which 
occurred between the visit of Haven and Drachart in 1765 and 
