Northwest, which flows from Lake Michikamau to Groswater Bay or
Hamilton Inlet, after being joined about twenty miles above Grand
Lake by a river called the Nascaupee. Relying upon this map,
Hubbard planned to reach early in the summer the Northwest River
Post of the Hudson's Bay Company, which is situated at the mouth of
the Northwest River, ascend the river to Lake Michikamau, and then,
from the northern end of that lake, beat across the country to the
George River.

The Geological Survey map is the best of Labrador extant, but its
representation as to the Northwest River (made from hearsay) proved
to be wholly incorrect, and the mistake it led us into cost us
dear. After the rescue, I thoroughly explored Grand Lake, and, as
will be seen from my map, I discovered that no less than five
rivers flow into it, which are known to the natives as the
Nascaupee, the Beaver, the Susan, the Crooked, and the Cape
Corbeau. The Nascaupee is the largest, and as the inquiries I made
among the Indians satisfied me that it is the outlet of Lake
Michikamau, it is undoubtedly the river that figures on the
Geological Survey map as the Northwest, while as for the river
called on the map the Nascaupee, it is in all likelihood non-
existent. There is a stream known to the natives as Northwest
River, but it is merely the strait, one hundred yards wide and
three hundred yards long, which, as shown on my map, connects
Groswater Bay with what the natives call the Little Lake, this
being the small body of water that lies at the lower end of Grand
Lake, the waters of which it receives through a rapid.

Hubbard hoped to reach the George River in season to meet the
Nenenot or Nascaupee Indians, who, according to an old tradition,