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the American side such pursuit would lead them into the 

 neighbourhood of nations hostile to them, and con- 

 sequently produce less or more the reduction of their 

 numbers, which they are most careful to avoid, they are 

 very vmwilling to expose themselves to such hazard, and 

 content themselves with what they can procure from the 

 sea. In Greenland, however, there must be deer, more 

 particularly towards the south. It is rare in those islands 

 to see any animal of that description, and deer-skin is 

 seldom seen to form a part of their dress. The Danes, 

 indeed, may deprive them of such skins, by inducing the 

 poor creatures to barter with their masters ; and hence the 

 rare occurrence of seeing an Uskee furnished with any 

 portion of deer-skin. In Hudson's Bay, the name for a 

 deer is, according to writers Avho have given accounts of 

 that country, tuk-toa ; and in Greenland the same is 

 pronounced more softly, and may be written tu-tu (too 

 too). The ti'itling difference of sound in this instance is 

 nothing; and it is mentioned as tending to identify the 

 people who inhabit Greenland and Hudson's Bay. There 

 can be no doubt of their having a common origin, being 

 in size, customs and pursuits, precisely on the same 

 scale. 



In person they are diminutive, but stoutly made. They 

 seldom stand above four feet four inches, except in Green- 

 land, Avhere the national figure is changed by intermarriage 



