TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 



brief exchange of mail, news and merchandise 

 prevailed. It reminded me of similar occasions 

 on the eastern Labrador coast, but the French 

 language and a certain French love of dress 

 added a peculiar charm to this more southern 

 region. One man, who had given rather more 

 than the usual care to his apparel, appeared in 

 tall yellow boots and yellow riding gloves with 

 tassels, a high starched collar and a purple 

 necktie. His pointed waxed moustaches gave 

 the finishing Parisian touch to the picture. 



Behind the town the forest stretches to the 

 range of low mountains which extend in a rocky 

 wall from east to west parallel with the coast. 

 This rocky barrier, the beginning of the high 

 land of the interior, stretches along the entire 

 southern coast that we visited from Seven 

 Islands to Natashquan. In places it recedes 

 many miles from the sea as at Natashquan, 

 where a coastal plain of thirty or forty miles 

 intervenes ; in other places it reaches the coast, 

 as at Magpie. At the Moisie River it is four- 

 teen miles from the sea, and at Mingan only 

 three miles aw r ay. At Seven Islands, although 

 the main range is several miles back of the head 

 of the bay, a rocky spur comes to the sea at the 



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