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when they attempted to follow her up the trees. This weapon, she says, she brought with her from the hot country, but the other from her own.
From the above particulars, which I learned from her own mouth, I think I am able to fix with some certainty upon the country of which she is a native. She has been supposed to be of the Esquimaux nation; but there is sufficient proof to refute this notion, for she is of a fair complexion, a smooth skin, and features as soft as an European. Whereas the people of the Esquimaux nation are, by the accounts of all travellers, the ugliest of men, of the harshest and most disagreeable features, and all covered with hair. She is certainly not mistaken of the situation of the country which she gives, for it is certainly a very cold country; and the people which she describes as living in the neighbourhood of her nation can be no other than the Esquimaux; and when we add to this, what travellers tell us of a certain race of people who are fair, of smooth skins, and soft features, living in the country of Labrador, upon the East side of Hudson's Bay, in the neighbourhood of the Esquimaux, we can hardly doubt but that Mademoiselle le Blanc, is one of that race of people,
