McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
The Indians of the Kings Posts and La Bradore are Crees originally from Hudson's Bay and differ but little in their dress manners and Language from the Tete de Boules of the River St Maurice and Temiscamingue. They are divided into two tribes the Nascapees or inland Indians and the Montagners or Shore Indians.
The Nascapees may still be regarded as the primitive inhabitant of this coast, whose ancient habits usages and absurdities they to this day retain in all their savage purity.
They lead a wandering life through the bare flat part of the Country subsist chiefly upon the flesh and cloath themselves with the skin of the carriboux which they catch in snares or shoot with the Bow and Arrow an exercise in which they are said to be very expert. They resort with their Bear Marten fox & Carriboux skins once a year either to Hudson's Bay Great Eskimaux Bay or Kings Posts so as to exchange them for the most necessary
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