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Updated: May 1, 2025
"`Don't lose yersilf! Faix, Master Frank, ye're free an' aisy. Arrah now, Bryan dear, don't lose yersilf; you that's crossed the salt saes, an' followed the Red Injins to the prairie, and hunted in the Rocky Mountains, and found yer way to Ungava not to mintion havin' comed oraginally from ould Ireland which ov itsilf secures ye agin mistakes of every kind whatsumdiver. Lose yersilf!
"No doubt they care as little for the anticipated dangers of the expedition as any men living, and they hesitate to go simply because they know that the life before them will be a lonely one at such an out-o'-the-way place as Ungava. But we can't help that, Frank; the interests of the Company must be attended to, and so go they must, willing or not willing.
Frank fired away, literally, for he applied a piece of glowing charcoal to his pipe, and fired off half a dozen rapid puffs in reply, as it were, to his friend opposite. Then he began. "You remember, I daresay, that the day on which I left Ungava, last spring, was an unusually fine one just such a day, Eda, as those on which you and I and Chimo were wont to clamber up the berry-glen.
Here they saw the Ungava country at a distance, stretching to the south before them.
No people suffer more from hunger than the Esquimaux who inhabit the shores of Ungava Bay; seals being extremely scarce in the winter season, and no fish to be found; so that the poor creatures are often reduced to the most revolting expedients to preserve life.
An Esquimaux who had attached himself to the establishment from the time of our first arrival at Ungava, kept a poor widow and her three orphans with him for several years, and seemed to make no difference between them and the members of his own family.
MacPherson closed the door behind him, "my true name's Sandy Craig and th' blacksmith here is Jamie Lunan. Th' boss ha' a way o' namin' every mon t' suit hisself. Now, what's your true name, lad? 'Tis not Ungava Bob." "Bob Gray, an' I comes from Wolf Bight." "Now, where can Wolf Bight be?" asked Sandy. "In Eskimo Bay, sir." "Aye, aye, Eskimo Bay. 'Tis a lang way ye are from Eskimo Bay!
At last we reached Clearwater Lake, and had a long consultation as to the best course to pursue, because it was now a question whether we should follow the chain of lakes by which we came up to Ungava in our canoes, or make a straight cut for the coast and take our chance of finding it. While we were yet uncertain what to do, our course was decided by a polar bear!"
The rivers and streams discharging the waters of the lakes into the sea flow to the four points of the compass into the Atlantic and its inlets on the east, into Ungava Bay on the north, Hudson Bay and James Bay on the west, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south.
Our feelings can be imagined when the full realization of our good fortune came to us, and we turned our canoe to float down on the current of the little stream that was to grow into a mighty river as it carried us on its turbulent bosom toward Ungava Bay. The course of the stream here was almost due east. The surrounding country continued low and swampy.
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