A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador An Account Of The Exploration Of The Nascaupee And George Rivers By Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior
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Learned That Only Three Days Before They Had Returned From Davis
Inlet Where They Go To Trade For Supplies
As do the Montagnais.
They had come back from their long journey sick at heart to meet
empty handed those
Who waited in glad anticipation of this the
great event of the year - the return from the post. The ship had
not come, and the post store was empty.
As they talked, the group about the canoe was growing larger. The
old men had joined the others together with a few old women. As
the story of their disappointment was told one old man said, "You
see the way we live and you see the way we dress. It is hard for
us to live. Sometimes we do not get many caribou. Perhaps they
will not cross our country. We can get nothing from the
Englishman, not even ammunition. It is hard for us to live."
All summer they had been taking an occasional caribou, enough for
present needs, but little more than that, and the hunters on their
return from the coast found the hands at home as empty as their
own. Now the long winter stretched before them with all its dread
possibilities.
We enquired of them how far it was to the coast, and found that
they make the outward journey in five days, and the return trip in
seven. They informed us that they had this year been accompanied
part of the way in by an Englishman.
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