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As Bering Strait has so frequently been made use of in
order to explain how America could receive its original
inhabitants from Asia, and as the American side of this sound does
not show any trace of having been inhabited by other people
than the Eskimo, this race seems to deserve particular attention
with regard to all questions touching the prehistoric population
of America. If their kinship to other nations has to be judged
from their customs and manner of life, they seem to form a
natural continuation of their Indian neighbours on the western
coast of America. It has been assumed, that the latter
aborigines have come from the interior of the continent following
the river courses unto the sea. The same may as well be
suggested with regard to the Eskimo, only with the addition,
that having reached the ocean they spread along the coasts to
the north and the east as far as the same natural conditions
and the lack of opposition by earlier inhabitants admitted,
occupying in this way regions of enormous extent. In proposing
this hypothesis we may leave wholly out of consideration the
question, whether in a still earlier period the ancestors of both
the Indians and the Eskimo migrated from Asia or not. But
certainly we will have still to examine another hypothesis which,
if even less probable, can not be rejected on the plea that it
infers an impossibility, namely that the Eskimo came across
Bering Strait, proceeded to the east and the south where then
they met with the Indians and in settling finally adopted some
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