The scrub grew gradually thinner and smaller as one approached the sea, and at the mouth of the river there was nothing but barren hills and marsh.
[Footnote 7: _Ledum palustre_.] The unfortunate Eskimo of this region, judging by the examples seen by Hearne, were of low stature, with broad thickset bodies.

Their complexion was a dirty copper colour, but some of the women were almost fair and ruddy.

Their dress, their arms and fishing tackle were precisely similar to those of the Greenland Eskimo.

Their tents were made of deerskins, and were pitched in a circular form.

But these were only their summer habitations, those for the winter being partly underground, with a roof framework of poles, over which skins were stretched; and of course Nature did the rest, covering the roof with several feet of snow.