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If he be a lover of nature, he will find few more beautiful and 

 attractive regions than this, with its irregular coastline, di- 

 versified by rocky hills, imposing cliffs, and island-dotted 

 bays ; with its many-hued Arctic vegetation ; and in the north 

 with its deep fiords and huge mountain masses. If he be a 

 scientist, its plants, its geological formation and history, its 

 animal life, will give him plentiful opportunity for study and 

 new discovery. The sportsman will revel in brooks teeming 

 with trout, or may haply discover big game worthy of his 

 rifle. The mere traveler, seeking new sights and adven- 

 tures, will come away enthusiastic over the novelties of a 

 summer in the far north, where numberless icebergs, a bril- 

 liantly phosphorescent sea, a sky often alive with wonderful 

 quivering displays of auroral light, a season of continuous 

 autumnal comfort, and the strange, impressive landscapes 

 of a sub-arctic country, have given him a bountiful reward 

 for his journey. 



Yet, after all, wherever one may go, it is the human life, 

 with its varieties and occupations, its differences from our- 

 selves, its triumphs, vicissitudes, and problems, that fur- 

 nishes the study of most absorbing interest. This is cer- 

 tainly true of Labrador. Simple, rugged, and primitive, like 

 the land they live in, its people present features of interest 

 alike to the psychologist, the anthropologist, the student of 

 social economy and conditions — and naturally, also, to the 

 practical philanthropist. 



Eskimos. — Of the aboriginal inhabitants, aside from the 

 Indians of the southerly interior, there are now only about 

 ? thousand Eskimos along the Atlantic coast. From Hope- 

 dale southward most of them are of mixed blood ; but north 

 of there they are said to be almost entirely pure blooded. We 



