OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA 



be required in order to give an account of all the 

 Eskimo and Indian tribes of British North America, 

 to say nothing of the vast numbers of tribes watched 

 over by the United States. So we shall have to 

 content ourselves with a glimpse at the lives of a 

 few tribes inhabiting country which lies between 

 the extreme north of North America and a boundary 

 line passing from the south of Vancouver Island 

 through the Great Lakes, to the south of the St. 

 Lawrence estuary. 



Eskimo tribes on the west coast of Greenland are 

 under Danish rule, while Eskimo and Indian people 

 of Alaska are subject to control by the U.S.A. 

 Hence we shall concern ourselves chiefly with the 

 &quot; Central &quot; Eskimo of Hudson Bay, Baffin Land, 

 Davis Strait, and Labrador ; while with regard to 

 Indian tribes we may select just a few of those 

 which lie wholly, or to some great extent, within 

 British territory. 



Although Eskimo tribes are to be found from 

 Behring Strait to Greenland, and Indians anywhere 

 between Vancouver Island and Newfoundland, 

 the appearance of peoples in widely separated tribes 

 is very much the same. All the Eskimo are short 

 of stature (average height 5 ft. 2 in.), well built and 

 sturdy, while the skin colour is a dark yellowish 

 brown, not unlike the shade that characterises 

 the Southern European. In some respects the 

 Eskimo is not unlike an inhabitant of Mongolia, for 

 at once a traveller would notice the broad face, 

 high cheek bones, straight black hair, and oblique 

 eyes. The head of an Eskimo is long in proportion 

 to the breadth, and the very high vault enables a 



