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to guide us in our investigations concerning the obscure history
of the nation. It is the above mentioned new words invented
during the transition of the Eskimo to their present state as a
really arctic people, that first have to be objects of our
investigations. While the uniformity of the language in general must be
derived from a common source before their migration to the
northern shores, the subsequent dispersion might be supposed to
have tended to cause greater differences especially in regard to
the new designations. But just the contrary proved to be the
result from duly examining them. The classes into which the
glossary divided the words in general had no reference to those
here in question, that had to be picked out and gathered from
different classes, as for instance parts of the body, animals,
hunting implements etc., and it was striking to observe, that
with regard to the most important of them, the dialects exhibited
the most complete resemblance or rather identity. Of course
various doubts can be raised as to the question about what
might be considered as belonging to the new words etc., but
even if allowance was given to objections in regard to such,
the proofs appeared so evident in favour of certain conclusions
relating to the development of the present Eskimo culture, that
no doubt could exist about them. They are:
1. That the original Eskimo, if they have issued from the
interior continent, have not followed diverging directions, but
ARRIVED AT THE SHORES OF THE ARCTIC SEA STILL IN WHAT
MAY BE CONSIDERED ONE BODY. The maritime country which
here they first occupied, we will call the «Eskimo culture home»,
to be distinguished from the original cradle of their race.
THEY CAN ONLY HAVE HAD ONE SUCH CULTURE HOME, howsoever
they gained it, along the seashore or directly from the interior.
Certainly there are several reasons for believing, that after the
dispersion of the first emigrants issuing from the culture home
had commenced, bands from the interior may have joined these
pioneers even in places distant from the culture home, but in
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