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met them frequently north of Hopedale. Their present 

 southern Hmit is Hamilton Inlet, though in former times they 

 are reported to have spread as far south as Massachusetts. 

 They swarmed over our schooner, peering curiously into all 

 its recesses, and offering their simple possessions in exchange 

 for tobacco and clothing; and we met many of them in their 

 villages on shore. We find them here not in their original 

 crude condition, but greatly modified in dress, manners, and 

 customs by their long contact with white men. The Mora- 

 vians sent missionaries to these coasts more than a century 

 and a quarter ago. In consequence, the Eskimos who have 

 come under their influence have adopted many features of 

 civilized dress, implements, and beliefs. It is only further 

 north or west than we penetrated that we find them un- 

 changed. 



The men look strong and sturdy. They are rather 

 short, seeming to average about five feet and a half.* Their 

 heads are very long from front to back, as compared with 

 their breadth; the cephalic index, according to the anthro- 

 pologists, averages about 75. Their faces are broad and 



* Statements vary as to their height. Low (loc. cit., p. 52 L) says : 

 "The males, as a rule, are quite as tall as the average white man, but 

 owing to their broad, heavy build, they appear shorter than they really 

 are; and this appearance is enhanced by their wide garments of hairy deer 

 or seal skins. Where seen by the writer . . . several of the men were 

 six feet and upward in height, the average height being about six 

 feet five inches." Deniker (The Races of Man, 1900, p. 578) gives the 

 average height of twenty-six measured Eskimos of Labrador as five feet 

 two inches. Robert Brown {Encyd, Brit., VIII, 543) says they measure 

 five feet four inches to five feet ten inches, and in rare cases even six 

 feet. The cephalic index (Deniker, p. 587) is 76.8 for the living subject, 

 as measured on 614 Eskimos of Greenland; and for the skull has been 

 found to be 72.4 for 31 cases from Greenland, 71.3 for 152 cases from 

 Eastern America (measurements of Davis). They are said by Ripley 

 {Races of Europe, 1899) to be almost the longest headed race known. 



