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son carianchos, romos, bezudos, y tengon los ojos y los car-
bellos negros. La lengua de los Esquimeaux no1es que un
dialecto de aquella que se habla en Greenland. Esta len-
gua abunda en largas polisilabas. Las canoas de los dos
pueblos son construidas de la misma maanera. Adoran am-
bos al Grande Espiritu con otros inferiores que residen en
todas partes. De estas y otras coincidencias que no es
posible numener al presente, son convencido que la tierra
de Labrador habia sido problada por los nativos de Green-
land, antes del arribo de otras naciones.7)
  The inhabitants of Greenland, says Juan Perez, have a
striking resemblance to the Esquimeaux, not only in per-
son, which seldom exceed five feet, but in complexion,
which is yellow. The Esquimeaux and the inhabitants of
Greenland have broad faces, flat noses, thick lips, with
black eyes and hair. The language of the Esquimeaux is
no other than a dialect of that language which is spoken in
Greenland, abounding in polysyllables of great length.
The canoes used by the Esquimeaux are exactly built of the
same materials, and in the same form as those of the Green-
landers. Both these people have their Great Spirit, as well
as several other inferior ones residing, according to their
belief, in every part of the country. From these and other
circumstances, continues Juan Perez, I am convinced that
the Esquimeaux are the descendants of the Greenlanders.
  The coasts of Labrador, on the Atlantic, are inhabited
by tribes of those people, who have been called Esqui-
meaux. This name has been given them by the tribes of
American Indians, from whom they seem to be a people
entirely different. The name signifies eaters of raw flesh,
which the Esquimeaux are observed to do frequently.
These tribes are said to be distinguished from the other
American Indians by many characteristics. Their colour
is not that of copper, but the tawny brown which distin-
guishes the inhabitants of the more noprthern parts of Eu-
rope: They all have beards, and some of them have been
observed with hair of different colours, some fair and others
red. These marks by which they are so evidently distin.
guished from the American Indians, have inclined several
philosophers to believe that they are of European descent ;