CAPE STEPHENS. CAPE DARBY. 
yond Point Shallow, in lat. 63. -33, is Cape Stephens ; and before it, at a {mall 
diftance, Stwart’s ifle. Thefe make the fouthern points of Norton’s Sound, formed 
by a vaft recefs of the land to the eaft. All the land near the fea is low and bar- 
ren, bounded inland by mountains. ‘The trees, which were Birch, Alder, Wil- 
low, and Spruce, very fmall; none of the laft above fix or eight inches in diameter : 
but the drift-wood, which lay in plenty on the fhore, much larger ; having been 
brought down the rivers from land more favorable to its growth. ‘Towards the 
bottom of the found, Cape Denbigh juts far to the weft into the water, and forms 
a peninfula, It has been an ifland; for there are evident marks on the ifthmus, 
that the fea had once pofleffed its place: a proof of the lofs of the element of water 
in thefe parts, as well as in other remote parts of the globe. 
The found, from Cape Denbigh, is fuddenly contraéted, and is converted into a 
deep inlet, feemingly the reception of a large river. The continent, in thefe parts, 
confifts of vaft plains, divided by moderate hills; the former watered by feveral 
rivers meandering through them. Vegetation improves in proportion to the dif- 
ftance from the fea, and the trees increafe in bulk. A promontory, called Bald 
Head, bounds the northern entrance into this inlet. Farther to the weft Cape 
Darby, in \at. 64. 21, makes the northern horn of this great found. 
Numbers of people inhabit this coaft. The men were about five feet two 
inches high ; and in form and features refembled all the natives feen by the navi- 
gators fince they left Nootka Sound. They had, in their under lip, two perfora- 
tions. The color of their fkin was that of copper: their hair fhort and black : 
the beard of the men fmall: their language a dialect of the E/Rimaux. Their 
clothing is chiefly of Deer fkins, with large hoods, made in the form of loofe 
jackets, fcarcely reaching lower than half the thigh ; where it was almoft met by 
a great wide-topped boot, The E/kimaux occafionally ftick their children in the 
top: the women of this country place them more commodioufly within the upper 
part of the jacket, over one fhoulder *. In language there feems confiderable con- 
formity. They had, like them, the woman’s boat, and the Kaiack: the firft they 
fometimes made ufe of as a protection from the weather, by turning it upfide down, 
and fheltering beneath. But their hovels were the moft wretched of any yet feen; 
confifting of only a floping roof (without any fide walls) compofed of logs; a 
floor of the fame ; the entrance at one end, and a hole to permit the efcape of the 
fmoke. Thefe poor people feem very fufceptible of feelings for the misfortunes 
of each other, which would do honor to the moft polifhed ftate. A family ap- 
peared, one of which was a moft diftorted figure, with fcarcely thé human form : 
® See tab. 54. 
another, 
CLV 
Cars STEPHENS. 
Cape Darsy. 
Natives. 
Tuerr SEnsisie 
LITY, 
