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be of a different tribe from any hitherto feen ei- 
Wu ~— ther on the coaft of Labradore, Hudfon’s Bay, or | 
June. 
Davis’s Straits. The women wore their hair at full 
length, and exaétly in the fame ftile as all the 
other Efquimaux women do whom I have feen. 
When at the fea-fide, (at the mouth of the Cop-: 
per River,) befides feeing many feals on the ice, — 
I alfo obferved feveral flocks of fea-fowl flying 
about the fhores; fuch as, gulls black-heads, 
loons, old wives, ha-ha-wie’s, dunter geefe, arétic 
gulls, and willicks. In the adjacent ponds alfo 
were fome fwans and geefe in a moulting ftate, 
and in the marfhes fome curlews and plover; 
plenty of hawks-eyes, (i. e. the green plover,) — 
and fome yellow-legs; alfo feveral other {mall 
birds, that vifit thofe Northern parts in the Spring 
to breed and moult, and which doubtlefs return 
Southward as the fall advances. My reafon for 
this conjecture is founded on a certain knowledge 
that all thofe birds migrate in Hudfon’s Bay; and 
it is but reafonable to think that they are lefs ca- 
pable of withftanding the rigour of fuch a long 
and cold Winter as they mutft neceflarily experi- 
encein acountry which is fo many degrees with- 
in the Ar@tic Circle, as that is where I now | 
faw them. 
That the mufk-oxen, deer, bears, wolves, wol- 
varines, foxes, Alpine hares, white owls, ravens, 
partridges, ground-fquirrels, common fquirrels, 
ermins, mice, &c. are the conftant inhabitants of 
thofe parts, is not to be doubted. In many places, 
by the fides of the hills, where the fnow lay to a 
great 
