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(11) The ethnographical section of Sagoskin’s voyage 1843—44
in Erdmann’s Archive 1849.

(12) W. H. Dall: Alaska and its resources 1870.

(13) Adelung’s Mithridates 1816.

(14) Statistische und ethnographische Nachrichten etc....
von Contre-Admiral Wrangell. St. Petersburg 1839.

(15) Die Bevölkerungsverhältnisse der Tschukschen-Habinsel
von Dr. Aurel Krause. Deutsche Geogr. Blätter 1883.

(16) Veniaminow’s Aleutian and Kadjakian Grammars
(published in Russian) 1846.

(17) Sauer: Account of Billing’s voyage 1785—94
London 1802.

(18) F. Boas: An article on Baffin’s Land in «Mittheilungen
aus Justus Perthes geogr. A.» 1885, and a list of words
kindly sent me in manuscript.

(19) Lieutn. Ray: Report on the Point Barrow Expedition
Washington 1885.

Besides occasional notes in other works, and those written
down by the Danish expedition to East Greenland as well as
various communications by other Arctic travellers, my original
collection of written traditions etc.

The written language, letters and signs.

On account of the imperfect manner in which the words
spoken by the natives were caught up and interpreted, the
first vocabularies naturally exhibited supposed dialectic differences
which in reality did not exist. The misunderstanding and
confusion came partly from the peculiar sounds, partly and
especially from the strange construction of the language, which
contrasts completely with our way of inflecting words and arranging
sentences. As to the sounds there can be no doubt, that the
general character of all the Eskimo talks is uniform enough to
admit their being expressed by the same system of letters. In

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