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1771. themis a ftiff loam and clay, which, in fome 
“uh” parts, produces patches of pretty good grafs, and 
in others tallith dwarf willows: at the foot of the 
hills alfo there is plenty of fine {curvy-grafs. 
The Efquimaux at this river are but low in fta- 
fture, none exceeding the middle fize, and though 
broad fet, are neither well-made nor {trong bodi- 
ed. Their complexion is of a dirty copper colour ; 
fome of the women, however, are more fair and 
ruddy. Their drefs much refembles that of the 
Greenlanders in Davis’s Straits, except the wo- 
men’s boots, which are not ftiffened out with 
whalebone, and the tails of their jackets are not 
more than a foot long. 
Their arms and fifhing-tackle are bows and ar- 
rows, {pears, lances, darts, &c. which exaétly re- ~ 
femble thofe made ufe of by the Efquimaux in 
Hudfon’s Straits, and which have been well de- 
{cribed by Crantz*; but, for want of good edge- 
tools, are far inferior to them in workmanfhip. 
Their arrows are either fhod with a trianglar piece 
of black ftone, like flate, or a piece of copper; 
but moft commonly the former. 
The body of their canoes is on the fame con- © 
ftruction as that of the other Efquimaux; and 
there is no unneceflary prow-projection beyond 
the body of the veffel; thefe, like their arms and 
other utenfils, are, for the want of better tools, 
by no means fo neat as thole I have feen in Hud- 
fon’s Bay and Straits. The double-bladed pad- 
* See Hift. of Greenland, vol, 1. p. 132—r56. 
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