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more than a mere accidental coincidence.* The 

 syllable ta in the language of the Kutchin, who are 

 the inland neighbours of the Kuskuchewak, signi- 

 fies water, and Ta-kutchi denotes "the water or 

 ocean people." To (or Ta in composition) means 

 " water" in the 'Tinne or Chepewyan tongue also. 

 . The Sedentary Tchukche, who inhabit the shores 

 of the Gulf of Anadyr, and assume, according to 

 Sauer, the national appellation of Namollo^ are a 

 tribe of Eskimos. They seem once to have pos- 

 sessed the coast of Asia as far westward f as the 

 160th parallel, traces of Eskimo dwellings having 

 been found up to the mouth of the Kolyma. The 

 more powerful Rein-deer Tchukche oppress and 

 restrain them within narrow limits, and are there- 

 fore considered as the invaders of the Namollo 

 territory. 



With the mention of the Asiatic detachment of 

 the nation, and without entering into the question 



* The Turkish words Yacubi and Yakutski signify the 

 " Sons of Jacob," and, on applying to several well informed 

 Turks, they could recollect no other words so similar in sound to 

 Yakut. A Christian community named Yakubiov YakupirQ&iilQ 

 at the present time in Jerusalem. 



f Commencing at the east coasts of Labrador and Greenland, 

 the Namollos become the western members of the family, as Dr. 

 Latham has noticed ; and even in respect to Europe they are 

 less eastern than their American brethren. Is Namollo from 

 nuna-mullo, "distant land"? 



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