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whence ap-uti-tut, "as white as snow;" kan-elc, 

 " snow falling ; " aki-lokak^ " new fallen white 

 snoAV ; " auma-yali-woh^ " a great fall of damp 

 snow:" siko, "ice;" tu-wak^ "solid ice;" 7iilak^ 

 " light ice ; " ka-cho-ak, " drift-ice ; " sir-mek, " thin 

 ice." We have already remarked, that the Eskimos 

 of Labrador and Beering's Straits retain the name 

 of the musk-ox, though the Central Eskimos alone 

 come into contact with the animal (page 322.).* 



The inhabitants of the north-western coasts from 

 Tchugatsky Bay (or as it is named in the English 

 charts, Prince William's Sound), northwards, in- 

 cluding the peninsula of Alaska and the islands in 

 Beering's Sea and Straits, are considered by Baron 

 Wrangell, Baer, and others acquainted with them, 

 to be of the Eskimo stock.f Captain Beechey 



* The following are some of the local designations of ti-ibes 

 of the Central Eskimos. The A-hak-nan-helet reside near 

 Repulse Bay ; the Ut-1m-sik-kaling-me-ut, or " Stone-kettle Es- 

 kimos," live further to the westward ; the Kang-or-me-uf, or 

 " White Goose Eskimos," dwell to the eastward of Cape Alex- 

 ander ; those who frequent the mouth of the Coppermine 

 River call themselves Na-ye-uk-tor-me-ut, or " Deer-Horn Es- 

 kimos;" and the numerous tribe that resorts to the eastern outlet 

 of the Mackenzie call themselves Kitte-ga-re-ut, or " inhabitants 

 of land near the mountains." 



f " The inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands (i. e. Beering's 

 and Copper Islands), of the Rat Islands, Andreanowsky Islands, 

 and Prebiilowiini Islands, of Unalaska and Kadiak, are all Es- 

 kimo ; a fact which numerous vocabularies give us full means 

 of ascertaining. In respect of the difference of speech between 



