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to be of any value. An under-jaw given me by a man 

 who lived near by and who had taken it from the graves 

 had double teeth (sic) all around, the front teeth being 

 worn down to the gums, the two jaws not overlapping 

 {this being an Eskimo characteristic) ; the jaw resembled 

 those of the skulls from Hopedale. There were several 

 graves formed by natural fissures in the rocks, covered 

 over by a layer of stones, with soil heaped over them, 

 €ach forming a sort of natural dolmen. No one knew 

 about them, but it was supposed that they may have been 

 the graves of those killed in a battle of the Eskimos with 

 the Indians. Battle Point, a little way up the coast, 

 •commemorates a sanguinary fight between these two 

 races of Labrador aboriginals. 



I now learned that the old fort situated on a bluif on 

 the terrace previously described was built by an early 

 settler named Greville, who held out one winter against 

 the wiles of the Indians until, during a deep snow-storm 

 which barred up the cannon of the fort and choked up 

 the embrasures, the dusky assailants scaled the walls and 

 gained entrance within. Our informant said that Greville 

 wrote a history of Labrador. Near the fort was a circular 

 area paved closely with cobble-stones, but nearly over- 

 grown with Empetrum, which was said to have been the 

 foundation of a Nascopi wigwam, but was more probably 

 of Eskimo origin. 



The 22d was a fine day but nearly calm, and the fore- 

 noon was spent with the insect-net in hand. The cur- 

 lews were quite abundant, perhaps a hundred being seen. 

 After dinner we hauled up anchor, and Bradford went 

 out in search of icebergs. Two small bergs were seen 

 near the southern end of Belle Isle and farther down the 



