command of Vermont troops,
211; proposes to settle two Canadian townships, 266. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am.
Biog._

=Epidemics.= =L= Ravages of, 239. _See_ Smallpox.

=Equal Rights Association.= Formed in Toronto, in 1889, to secure the
disallowance of the Jesuits' Estates Act, and generally to oppose what
was described as the "political encroachments of ultramontanism." Among
the principal founders were D'Alton McCarthy, William E. O'Brien, and
Clarke Wallace. =Index=: =Md= Grew out of agitation over Jesuits'
Estates question, 289.

=Erie Indians.= A large tribe, of Iroquois stock, inhabiting in the
seventeenth century the country between Lake Erie and the Ohio. After a
long war, the Eries were practically wiped out by the Iroquois, in 1656,
the few survivors being adopted into the Iroquois confederacy. =Bib.=:
Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians_.

=Erie, Lake.= Area 10,000 square miles. Discovered by Brebeuf and
Chaumonot, 1640. It is possible that the lake may have been first seen
by white men at a still earlier date, when the Franciscan friar, La
Roche Dallion, visited the Neutral nation, 1626, but there is no direct
evidence. The lake is mentioned under its present name in Lalemant's
_Relation_ of 1641, as well as in that of Ragueneau, 1648. La Salle's
_Griffon_ was the first ship to sail its waters, 1679. First clearly
shown on Sanson map of 1650. =Bib.=: Chaumonot, _Vie_; Harris, _Early
Missions_; Parkman, _Jesuits in North America_.

=Ermatinger, Francis.= =D= His expedition to Sacramento in 1841, 132.
=Bib.=: Simpson, _Journey round the World_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay
Company_.

=Erskine, David Montagu, second Baron= (1776-1855). =Bk= British
minister at Washington, premature announcement of, with respect to
orders-in-council, 120. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Eskimos.= American aborigines, formerly occupying practically the
entire coast of North America from Newfoundland around to the Aleutian
Islands; now confined to the northern coast of the continent, and the
Arctic Islands. They call themselves Inuit, meaning "people," the name
"Eskimo" having been given them by some of their Indian neighbours.
=Bib.=: Hodge, _Handbook of American Indians_; Reclus, _Primitive Folk_.
_See also_ United States Bureau of Ethnology _Reports_.

=Esquimalt.= Naval station, four miles from Victoria, Vancouver Island.
=Index=: =D= Suggested as site for city, 175; Douglas's spelling of
name, 175; H. M. S. _Constance_ arrives there, 1