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They tell you, that as it is with difficulty they procure 
the neceffaries of life, they can admit of none, who 
do not contribute towards acquiring it ; that having 
no fixed refidence, and it being impoffible to carry 
the helplefs with them, as they are obliged to be 
continually traverfing the country; they alk you, if 
it is not better to put an end to miferable beings, 
than luffer them to perifh with cold and hunger ? 
The fon generally does this kind office for the fa- 
ther ; and, it having ever been a practice among 
them, they wonder at our confidering it as an adt of 
inhumanity. 
Of the ESQUIMAUX. 
The Esquimaux Indians, inhabiting the fea- 
coaft of the northern part of labr adore, are 
indifputably from Greenland. They are a very 
deep tawney, or rather of a pale copper-coloured 
complexion. Confidered altogether, they are infe- 
rior in fize to the generality of Europeans ; and but 
a few among them are of good ftature.. They 
bear a very near refemblance to the Laplanders, 
both in their perfons and cuftoms. It is not infinuated 
that they are a Lapland colony ; but it is very proba- 
ble, they came originally from Greenland. They have 
beards, fo have the Greenlanders, and indeed fo have 
the inhabitants of Lapland : whereas the Iroquois, the 
Hurons, the Efcopics, and the Mountaineers their 
neighbours, have hair no where except on the head. 
It is true this is no proof. The Samojedes are no 
more hairy than the nations we have juft mentioned j 
but 
