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the ruins of villages and winter huts along the sea shore and
in the interior. On the point where the station was established
were mounds, marking the site of three huts dating back to the
time when «men talked like dogs» (as their tradition says) ....
The fact of our finding a pair of wooden goggles twenty six
feet below the surface of the earth in the shaft sunk for earth
temperatures, points conclusively to the great lapse of time
since these shores were first peopled by the race of man».
Even the present distribution of the races constituting the
population of Alaska still exhibits a striking likeness to the
probable state of the same during the supposed existence of the
culture home. It has been a well known fact that in this country
Eskimo were found also in the interior, independent of the sea
as regards their mode of subsistance, but not before now have
their numbers and distribution been more distinctly given through
a regular census (1884). According to this the population of
Alaska is composed as follows: Arctic division, 3094 Eskimo, of
whom 800 live in the interior; the Yukon territory, 4276 Eskimo,
of whom 1343 live along the river unto its delta, besides of
2557 Indians, and 500 Eskimo on the island of St. Lorenz; the
Kuskokwim division, 8036 Eskimo, mostly in the interior, and
500 Indians; the Aleut division, 1890 Aleuts, 479 Creoles;
Kadjak division, 2211 Eskimo, 1190 Indians, 917 Creoles;
southeastern division, 230 Creoles, 7225 Indians. These
numbers corroborate the interesting intelligence given already by
the Russians (1839: Wasiljef and Glasunow) concerning a
population of several thousands of such inland Eskimo inhabiting
the south eastern part of Alaska traversed by the Kuskokwim
river and its tributaries. Not less striking are the discoveries
made in northern Alaska by Capt. Healy and Lieut. Cantwell in
1884. Their report has at once thrown light upon the nature
of this north western corner of America, its inhabitance and
the remarkable trading intercourse between the Eskimo of the
western and the northern shores by the inland Eskimo as
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