Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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phs : My expedition demonstratedthat geographers were mistakenin supposing the NorthwestRiver, draining Lake Michika-mau, and the Nascaupee River,draining Seal Lake, to be twodistinct rivers. They are one andthe same, the outlet of Lake Mi-di ikamau carrying its watersnortheast to Seal Lake, andthence southeast to Hamilton In-let. The head waters of the Nas-caupee River I traced northwardthrough Lake Michikamau andthe other lakes and streams lead-ing to tlie height of land,—anar-row strip of bog some three hun-dred yards in width,—and located the head waters of the George River immediately be-yond it, following three hundred miles to its mouththe course of the stream, which, at its source a tinyrivulet, is at its discharge into Ungava Bay a great riverthree miles in width, and securing correct maps of thewaters traversed. I witnessed also the annual cariboumigration, and visited in their home camps the two Mrs.Leonidas Hubbards Routethrough Labrador SCALE OF MILES0 20 « 60 80 100
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KtMi t a, ikt. THE TRAIL FROM NORTHWEST RIVER TO UNGAVA BAY. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 627 bands of Indians inhabiting the northern slope of theplateau,—the MonLagnais and the Xascaupees,—travel-ing three hundred and fifty miles of wilderness beforeseeing any human faces other than those of my crew.On the 27th of August I reached the George River Hud-son Bay Companys post at Ungava, first after McLeanto cross the country. The entire journey of six hundred miles was ac-complished in a few hours less than sixty-one days,forty-three days of actual travel and eighteen days incamp ; for we did not travel on rainy days, and some-times not on Sunday. We had all we could eat all thetime, and at the journeys end there was, including mygifts to the Xascaupee Indians, a surplus of one hundredand fifty pounds of provisions. Mrs. Hubbard had witli her George Elson, theScotch-Indian who had so loyally served Mr.Hubbard on his expedition two years before ;Joseph Iserhoff, a Russian half-bre

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