TO ESQUIMAUX POINT 
brief exchange of mail, news and merchandise 
prevailed. It reminded me of similar occasions 
on the eastern Labrador coast, but the French 
language and a certain French love of dress 
added a peculiar charm to this more southern 
region. One man, who had given rather more 
than the usual care to his apparel, appeared in 
tall yellow boots and yellow riding gloves with 
tassels, a high starched collar and a purple 
necktie. His pointed waxed moustaches gave 
the finishing Parisian touch to the picture. 
Behind the town the forest stretches to the 
range of low mountains which extend in a rocky 
wall from east to west parallel with the coast. 
This rocky barrier, the beginning of the high 
land of the interior, stretches along the entire 
southern coast that we visited from Seven 
Islands to Natashquan. In places it recedes 
many miles from the sea as at Natashquan, 
where a coastal plain of thirty or forty miles 
intervenes; in other places it reaches the coast, 
as at Magpie. At the Moisie River it is four- 
teen miles from the sea, and at Mingan only 
three miles away. At Seven Islands, although 
the main range is several miles back of the head 
of the bay, a rocky spur comes to the sea at the 
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