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556 . Notes on the Labrador Eskimo [June, 
1880, and was told that she was about 100 years old, but I 
deemed that an exaggeration. Her sons were George and An- 
drew, both now dead of consumption. I-buried George at Mid- 
dle bay in 1862. Andrew died since we came away. He had 
visited Halifax and had had his photograph taken ; I havea copy 
of it; it is, however, of a dressed-up man, not my old Esqui- 
maux 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. She said to me in 1880, ‘“ There’s my 
Jenny, 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 surname. I used to 
sec one, ‘ Louis the Esquimaux.’ My impression is that one only 
of that family was living in 1880, for I brought home Esquimaux 
dolls in full dress made by her. These I feel sure were all the 
remnants living in my parish, say tor fifty or a hundred miles up 
and down the coast. 
“The Esquimaux in Southern Labrador are a remnant. 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 Eskimo, 
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 formerly a few Eskimo living in this region, but they had 
died off rapidly within a few years past; our pilot from the 
/ States, Capt. French, who had frequented this coast for many 
~ YEATS, said that there was now but one Eskimo where there used 
o to be twenty. Their disappearance seems due partly to that of 
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