It strike one as beinged this morn...

It strike one as beinged this morning as if something unusual must happen. It was as if we were coming into a hidden geographical division

--"My Explorations in Unknown Labrador" 822

These words were written in 1906 and they record the conceits of Mina Benson Hubbard as she went down the George River towards the camps of the "Barren territory People" during the penultimate stage of her 1905 expedition across Northern Labrador. Mina was referring to the ancestral lands of the Nascaupi Indians, if it be not that her words suggest that there is more at stake in her narrative than her visit to the