West of the Dogribs dwelt--and still dwell--the interesting tribe of _Hare_ Indians, or Kawcho-Tinne.

They extend northwards to the Anderson River, on the verge of the Arctic Ocean.

West of the lower Mackenzie River, and stretching thence to the Porcupine or Yukon Rivers, are the Squinting Indians ("Loucheux", or Kuchin), who in former times were met with much farther to the south-east than at the present day.
Finally, there are the Nahani Indians, who have penetrated through the Rocky Mountains to the Stikine River, reaching thus quite close to the Pacific Ocean.

This penetration northwards of groups of Athapaskan Indians into districts inhabited for the most part by Amerindian tribes differing widely in language and customs from all those _east_ of the Rocky Mountains, explains the way in which stories of the great western sea--the Pacific--reached, by means of trading intercourse, those Amerindian tribes of the middle-west and upper Canada, and so stirred up the French and English explorers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to make the marvellous journeys which are recounted in this book.
[Footnote 8: These northern Indians are described by Hearne as having very low foreheads, small eyes, high cheekbones, Roman noses, broad cheeks, and long, broad chins.

Their skins were soft, smooth and polished, somewhat copper-coloured, and inclining towards a dingy brown.