266 THE LABRADOR ESKIMOS AND THEIR FORMER RANGE. 



Regarding the Eskimos living near Caribou Island, at 

 the mouth of Esquimaux River, Strait of Belle Isle, in 

 i860 and several years after that date, the following in- 

 formation has been kindly given me by the Rev. C. C. 

 Carpenter, for some years (1858 to 1865) a missionary 

 to this part of the Labrador coast : " Concerning the 

 Esquimaux (' Huskemavv,' old father Chalker at Salmon 

 Bay used to call them), in my time there was only one 

 family living in the immediate vicinity of the mission, 

 and that only a fragment^the Dukes family. They 

 once lived at the extremity of Five League Point. The 

 husband (George ?) died dnd the wife married an Eng- 

 lishman, old Johnny Goddard. She was a full-blooded 

 Esquimau, and could kill a seal by imitating its appear- 

 ance in dress and cry, just as quick as the next man, and 

 a good deal quicker if the other was white ! She died at 

 a great age about the year 1879. I was on the coast, 

 after an absence of fifteen years, in 1880, and was told 

 that she was about 100 years old, but I deemed that an 

 exaggeration. Her sons were George and Andrew, 

 both now dead of consumption. I buried George at 

 Middle Bay in 1862. Andrew died since we came away. 

 He had visited Halifax and had had his photograph 

 taken ; I have a copy of it ; it is, however, of a dressed- 

 up man, not my old Esquimau friend. Both of the 

 sons were unmarried. A daughter of old Aunt Jenny 

 Goddard had a daughter, I think by an American sailor. 

 She was called Lucy Dukes, and (her mother dying) was 

 adopted by Mrs. Goddard. I dare say you remember 

 her there at Stick Point Island ; she was lame. She 

 married little Johnny Goddard, nephew of old John, 

 and they with several children occupy the island home. 



