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The origin of the Eskimo as traced by
the language.
The object of the former volume was, in connection with an
abstract of the Grammar and a comparative vocabulary to
elucidate the question of the origin of the Eskimo by some general
considerations. The chief result arrived at was a theory,
according to which their ancestors originally inhabited a territory
situated somewhere in the interior of the North American
Continent, whence they emigrated and following the water courses,
were led to a littoral of the arctic or subarctic regions, most
probably that of Alaska. Settled on the shores of that country
they developed their wonderful art of capturing marine animals
which culminated in their marvellous capability of facing even
the most terrible experiences of the arctic clime. From Alaska
they then should have emigrated, spreading gradually to the
East and North over the vast regions since tennanted by them.
In bringing forward this explanation of how even the most
forbidding part of our globe could obtain inhabitants, we have, it
is true, omitted mentioning the possibility of the Eskimo having
inhabited a more southern littoral, and by simply following the
coast line reached the higher latitudes. Such a supposition
however will, on closer investigation prove to be more
improbable. Migrations of this kind could only have been effected
from three different coastal regions, namely those on the Eastern,
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