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doing so they wholly adopted the habits of the latter and
became amalgamated with them.
2. The culture home must have been of SMALL EXTENT
in comparison with the inhabited tracts of Eskimo countries and
their scale of distances in general. In other words its first
inhabitants must have been able to maintain A CERTAIN DEGREE
OF MUTUAL INTERCOURSE, sufficient to the development of their
common inventions, and to the adaptation of their mode of
living and of their simple social organisation to their future
arctic homes. A natural consequence of this co-operation was
the formation of the series of words mentioned above which we
might call the «new» or peculiar Eskimo words.
COMPARISON OF THE DIALECTS. In the former volume
the author has tried to give a view of the elements, out of
which the Eskimo language is constructed, the so called
stem-words and affixes in an alphabetic order. In the present part;
in some measure, the opposite order is used, showing how the
words of the European language are rendered in the Eskimo,
distributing them, as above mentioned, according to the ideas
or objects to be designated. This arrangement seemed to be
conformable to the ethnographic or culture-historical character
of the investigations here, and is also, as well known,
commonly used by authors on languages spoken by natives on the
lower stages of culture. It will be seen that in the present
case the schedules proposed by Powell in his «Introduction to
the study of Indian languages» are followed. However as the
Eskimo language in connection with the missionary work in
Greenland and Labrador has been thouroughly studied and
perfectly described certainly more than most of even the
better-known aboriginal American idioms, a supplement as a «General
part» will be inserted, serving to fill out what in the first
named «Special part» may be wanting, especially in regard to
words relating to more abstract ideas.
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