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She said to me in 1880, 'There's my Jennys just look 

 at her narrow features ; you know Granny had a very 

 narrow face ! ' And yet an old sailor once said that the 

 old woman's face was as flat as a barn-door ! 



" There was another family of Esquimaux, whose 

 residence was at St. Augustine ; I cannot recall the sur- 

 name. I used to see one, 'Louis the Esquimau.' My 

 impression is that one only of that family was living in 

 1880, for I brought home Esquimau dolls in full dress 

 made by her. These I feel sure were all the remnants 

 living in my parish, say for fifty or a hundred miles up 

 and down the coast. 



"The Esquimaux in Southern Labrador are a rem- 

 nant. Once powerful there and numerous, they were 

 defeated in a battle fought on Esquimaux Island (at the 

 mouth of the river) by the Indians (Mountaineers), and 

 what few were left went northward." 



We observed on Caribou Island traces of Eskimo 

 occupation in the form of a circle of stones, like that 

 observed farther north near Strawberry Harbor. 



Along the coast north of Hamilton Inlet are a few 

 Eskimos, half-breeds and probably remnants. At Roger's 

 Harbor we took aboard as pilot to Strawberry Harbor one 

 Cole, a half-breed, part Eskimo and part Englishman, 

 who had an Eskimo wife and two three-quarters-breed 

 children ; his mother was an Eskimo. There were for- 

 merly a few Eskimos living in this region, but they had 

 died off rapidly within a few years past ; our pilot from 

 the States, Captain French, who had frequented this 

 coast for many years, said that there was now but one 

 Eskimo where there used to be twenty. Their disap- 

 pearance seems due partly to that of seal, fish, birds, and 



