Bowdoin Boys in Labrador. 



On Board the "Julia A. Decker," ) 

 Port Hawkesbury, Gut of Canso, > 



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July 6th. 1891. ) 



Here the staunch Julia lies at anchor waiting for a change 

 in the wind and a break, in the fog. To-day will be memora- 

 ble in the annals of the "Micmac" Indians, for Prof. Lee has 

 spent his enforced leisure in putting in anthropometric work 

 among them, inducing braves, squaws and papooses of both 

 sexes to mount the trunk that served as a measuring block and 

 go through the ordeal of having their height, standing and sit- 

 ting, stretch of arms, various diameters of head and peculiari- 

 ties of the physiognomy taken down. While he with two as- 

 sistants was thus employed, two of our photographic corps 

 were busily engaged in preserving as many of their odd faces 

 and costumes as possible, making pictures of their picturesque 

 camp on the side of a hill sloping toward an arm of the Gut, 

 with its round tent covered with birch and fir bark, dogs and 

 children, and stacks of logs or wood — from which they make 

 the strips for their chief products, baskets — cows, baggage and 

 all the other accompaniments of a comparatively permanent 

 camp. They go into the woods and make log huts for winter, 

 but such miserable quarters as these prove to be on closer in- 

 spection, with stoves, dirt and chip floor, bedding and food in 

 close proximity to the six or eight inhabitants of each hut, 

 suffice them during warm weather. We found that they elect 

 a chief, who holds the office for life. The present incumbent 

 lives near by St. Peter's Island, and is about forty years old. 



