1885.] and their former range Southward, 555 
pursued their way through the interior of the country as far as 
the Straits of Belle Isle and Hamilton inlet, but exercising the 
utmost caution as they approached the sea to hunt for seals” 
(p. 30). 
Of the Mingan islands Esquimaux island was so named “ be- 
cause the Esquimaux were wont to assemble there every spring 
in search of seals,” &c., &c. (p. 49). 
“ The ruins of Brest must not be confounded with those of the 
old Esquimaux fort some distance farther up the straits, and 
which are found on Esquimaux island in St. Paul’s bay. These 
ruins, consisting of walls composed of stone and turf, remain 
almost entire to this day ;! and on the same island are large num- 
bers of human bones, the relics of a great battle between the 
Montagnais and French on one side and the Esquimaux on the 
other, which were found about 1840” (p. 130). 
“At Fox harbour there is a small settlement of Esquimaux, 
who are now orderly and industrious Christian people, fruits of 
the faithful labours of the missionary at Battle harbour, who has 
resided eight years on the coast” (p. 198). 
“Seals have been the chief cause of the wars between the 
Montagnais and Esquimaux of the Labrador peninsula, and most 
of the conflicts between these people have taken place at the 
estuaries of rivers known to be favourite haunts of the seal” 
(p. 204). 
Regarding the Eskimo living near Caribou island, at the mouth 
of Esquimaux river, Strait of Belle Isle, in 1860 and several years 
after that date, the following information has been kindly given 
me by the Rev. C. C. Carpenter, for some years (1858 to 1865) a 
missionary to this part of the Labrador coast: “ Concerning the 
Esquimaux (‘ Huskemaw,’ old father Chalker at Salmon bay used 
to call them), in my time there was only one family living in the 
immediate vicinity of the mission, and that only a fragment—the 
Dukes family. They once lived at the extremity of Five League 
point. The husband (George?) died and the wife married an 
Englishman, old Johnny Goddard. She was a full-blooded Esqui- 
maux, and could kill a seal by imitating its appearance in dress 
and cry, just as quick as the next man, and a good deal quicker 
if the other was white! She died at a great age about the year 
1879. I was on the coast, after an absence of fifteen years, in 
1 Robertson of Sparr point. 
