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A Strange People

SINGULAR race tain Parry, who says that a collection of of people are igloos, or huts, though within sight of his the Esquimaux. ship, had escaped notice for months from They appear to being constructed of snow, and so mingderive their origin ling with the surrounding landscape. His from a Red In- surprise may, in some measure, be imagdian tribe, driven, ined at finding an establishment of five in some remote age, from huts, with canoes, sledges, dogs, and the northern parts of the above sixty men, women and children, as American Continent by regularly and to all appearance as permawar, and gradually extend- nently fixed as if they had occupied the ing towards the pole. same spot the whole winter.

The habitations of this Says Captain Parry: If the first view of remarkable people are described by Cap-the exterior of this little village was such