People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — TWO. HUNDRED STARVED. [ARTICLE]

TWO. HUNDRED STARVED.

La§t Winter Was a Hard One in the In. terior ot Labrador. Ottawa, Out,, May B.—a letter has been received here from A. P. Bow, of the Canadian geographical survey, leader of the government explorinß party that left Lake St. John in June last to endeavor to reach Ungava bay by traversing the entire Labrador peninsula from south. to north. Mr. Low wrote from Hamilton inlet, where his party was forced to go because of the scarcity of provisions at Ungava bay. He reports that mora than 200 Indians in the vicinity of Uu gava bay had died of starvation during the winter.