description: CHAPTER III. EXPLORING EXPEDITION THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF LABRADOR -- DIFFICULTIES -- DEER-HUNT -- INDIAN GLUTTONY -- DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY -- PROVISIONS RUN SHORT -- INFLUENZA. The Company having learned, through a pamphlet published by the Moravian missionaries of Labrador, that the country produced excellent furs, were induced by the laudable desire of " ameliorating the condition of the natives," to settle it; and a party was accordingly sent overland from Moose Factory to take possession in the summer of 1831. The Moravians, finding their intention thus anticipated, left both the cure of souls and trade of furs to the Company. Whatever may have been the Company's real motives in forming a settlement in this quarter, THE UNGAVA ADVENTUBE. 33 the profits derived from it added but little to the dividends; the substance that glittered at a distance like gold proved to be but base metal. Beavers were nowhere to be found; and although the martens brought an extraordinary high price, they were far from plentiful; ...
language: English
title: Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory.
titlecomplete: Notes of a Twenty-five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory.
publisher: Praeger