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THE ESKIMO AT PORT CLARENCE. 
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Many natives were evidently migrating to more northerly 
hunting-grounds and fishing places, perhaps also to the markets 
and play-hooths, which Dr. John Simpson describes in his well- 
known paper on the West Eskimo.^ Others had already pitched 
their summer tents on the banks of the inner harbour, or of the 
river before mentioned. On the other hand, there was found in 
ESKIMO AT PORT CLARENCE. 
After a photograph by L. Palander.) 
the region only a small number of winter dwellings abandoned 
during the warm season of the year. The population consisted, 
as has been said, of Eskimo. They did not understand a word 
of Chukch. Among them, however, we found a Chukch woman, 
1 Further Papers relative to the recent Arctic Expedition, etc. Presented 
to both Houses of Parliament. London, 1855, p. 917. 
