. My strange rescue, and other stories of sport and adventure in Canada. ts. While, unkindest use of all, withits bladder they float the fatal harpoon that wrought itsown undoing. To sum it all up in one sentence, takeaway the seal, and the Eskimo could not exist for a month. There is not much room for fashions imperious sway inLabrador. Seal-skin from scalp to toe is the invariablerule; and there would be no small difficulty in distinguish-ing between the sexes, if the women did not indulge in acertain amount of ornamentation upon their garments, andfurther indicate their femineity by appendi
. My strange rescue, and other stories of sport and adventure in Canada. ts. While, unkindest use of all, withits bladder they float the fatal harpoon that wrought itsown undoing. To sum it all up in one sentence, takeaway the seal, and the Eskimo could not exist for a month. There is not much room for fashions imperious sway inLabrador. Seal-skin from scalp to toe is the invariablerule; and there would be no small difficulty in distinguish-ing between the sexes, if the women did not indulge in acertain amount of ornamentation upon their garments, andfurther indicate their femineity by appending to theirsacques a curious tail reaching almost to the ground, whichthey renew whenever it becomes so dirty as to shock eventheir sluggish sensibilities. Still another distinguishingmark, permissible, however, only to those who have at-tained the dignity of motherhood, is the amook, a capacioushood hung between the shoulders, which forms the safest THE CANADIAN CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 137 and snuggest of all carrying places for babies that other-wise would be in In addition to the records of the Moravian missionaries,the reports of the Arctic explorers and the stories broughtback by whalers concerning the Eskimos, much informationhas been gained of late through the measures taken by theCanadian Government to determine the practicability ofHudson Bay as a commercial highway. For three suc-cessive years expeditions on an extensive scale have been 138 THE CANADIAN CHILDREN OF THE COLD despatched to that little-known region, and observing sta-tions have been maintained throughout the year at dif-ferent points along the coast of Labrador and the shores ofthat great inland sea which has not inappropriately beentermed the Mediterranean of Canada. As one result ofthese expeditions, much attention has been drawn to thenatives. Lieutenant Gordon, who has commanded all three,has many kind words for them. He Jfinds them docile,amiable, and willing to work, and apparently much please
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