ABSTRACT
Everything there reflects the sterility of nature. Men are few in number, and barely more than four feet in height. Like children, they have enormous heads in proportion to their bodies. Their feet are so small that they walk unsteadily and hesitantly. Small hands and a rounded mouth, which would be considered attractive in Europe, are almost deformities among this people, who exhibit only the effects of a defective constitution and of the cold which stunts and restricts the growth and development of all animal and vegetable life. Although they have no hair on their faces or bodies, all the men, even the young ones, look as if they are old. This unattractiveness is due in part to the shape of their lower lip, which is thick and fleshy, and protrudes beyond the upper lip. These people are the Eskimos, who inhabit not only Labrador, from where they get their name, but also all the lands stretching from the point of BelleIsle2 to the northernmost regions of America.
