LOWER ENCAMPMENT, CHESTERFIELD INLET. 



CHAPTER VI. 



ESKIMOS. 



THE Eskimos are a circumpolar race, and live in the treeless 

 areas of the northern parts of America and Greenland. 

 Their present southern limit, on the Altantic coast of Labrador, 

 is Hamilton inlet, in 54 ~N. latitude. From there they inhabit 

 the coast to Hudson strait, and thence along the east coast of 

 Hudson bay, as far south as Cape Jones, at the entrance to 

 James bay. On the west side of Hudson bay their southern 

 limit is much farther north, being at Churchill, in 57 30' N". 

 latitude. Northward of that place they are found at intervals 



