[ETHNOLOGY OF THE UNGAVA DISTRICT,]
HUDSON BAY TERRITORY.
By Lucien M. Turner.
(Edited by John Murdoch.)
[INTRODUCTION.]
Ungava bay is on the northern coast of old Labrador—the last great bight of the strait between the ocean and the mouth of Hudson bay. Its chief affluent is Koksoak or South river, which is several hundred miles long and takes its rise in a picturesque festoonery of lakes looped through the highlands half way down to Quebec.
[ FORT CHIMO AND THE SURROUNDING REGION.]
Fort Chimo is in longitude 68° 16´ west of Greenwich and latitude 58° 8´ north. The post is on the right bank of the Koksoak river, about 27 miles from its mouth. The elevation of the level tract on which the houses are situated is but a few feet above high-water mark. The location was selected on account of its comparative dryness, and also because the river affords a safer anchorage in that vicinity than lower down.