Sound, where Stefansson found 

 his blond Eskimo, we have con- 

 firmatory evidences of hybridiza- 

 tion from two English sources of 

 unquestioned reliability. One of 

 these was that keen observer, 

 Dr. Alexander Armstrong, sur- 

 geon of McClure's ship Investi- 

 gator, whose crew made the first 

 northwest passage. Wintering in 

 Prince of Wales Strait, their par- 

 ties discovered the Eskimo of 

 Wollaston Land. They were liv- 

 ing under the same conditions 

 as when visited by Stefansson. 

 Building a village on the sea ice, 

 they lived by sealing, changing 

 camp when the sealing grounds 

 were exhausted. They used cop- 

 per weapons and utensils entirely, 

 and were devoid of both merce- 

 nary and thieving habits. They 

 had never seen whites and were 

 hostile both to the western Es- 

 kimo and to the Indians. 



Of these Eskimo Armstrong 

 writes : "I fancied that I could 

 trace the outline of Indian fea- 

 tures in both of the sexes. One 

 woman had a good complexion, 

 aquiline nose, and black hair. 

 Those apparently of Indian ex- 

 traction were taller, from 5 feet 7 

 to 5 feet 8 inches, and in one or 

 two cases even more. In a few 

 cases the forehead was somewhat 

 vertical, but narrow. Our inter- 

 preter had less difficulty in un- 

 derstanding the Cape Bathurst 

 Eskimo than those west (at Mac- 

 kenzie River and Point Barrow) 

 from the greater similarity of the 

 dialect to the Eskimo language of 

 Labrador." 



Capt. R. Collinson, Royal Navy, 

 in the Enterprise, wintered in 

 Walker Bay, Prince Albert Sound, 

 in 1851-1852. He saw much of 

 the natives, of whom he writes : 

 "Some among the tribes were of 

 difi^erent features to others, their 

 faces being oval, with a Jewish 

 cast, and the nose aquiline. In 

 one particular, that of having no 

 means of going on the water, they 

 difl^ered from all the Eskimo that 

 have yet been met with." 



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