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maux, it is certain that the tribes of that race now inhabiting 

 Asia, were occupants of their present localities, anterior to the 

 Russian Conquest of Kamskatka. 



A second deviation from the Esquimaux type, we find in the 

 island Cadiack, and the coast of the continent opposite. The 

 early Russian discoverers speak of a continual warfare between 

 opposing tribes of the same stock ; whilst another tribe, the 

 Inkalite, is said to uphold itself bravely against the more nu- 

 merous nation of the Kuskokwims. As a general rule, v/arfare, 

 except as a defence against tribes of a different race, is as 

 foreign to the typical Esquimaux of Greenland as to the Lap- 

 lander of Europe. 



Measured by another test, and that of the psychological sort 

 (viz., the capacity for religious instruction), the Western Esqui- 

 maux coincides with the Esquimaux of Greenland. With the 

 exception, perhaps, of the Negro, the race, in general, is the 

 most docile in respect to the influences of Christianity. The 

 religious history of extreme points of the Aleutian Islands and 

 Greenland verifies this statement. 



The extent to which a mixed breed has been propagated 

 under the government of Russia, may be collected from the fol- 

 lowing tables. In New Archangel the population is as follows : — ■ 



Europeans, . . . 406 



Creoles or half-breeds, . 307 



Aleutians. . . . 134 



In the remaining part of the territory it is as follows : — 



Europeans, . . . 246 

 Half-breeds, . . 684 



Natives, . . . 8882 



Of places of trust in New Archangel, a very large propor- 

 tion is held by Half-breeds. We find them as overseers, 

 police-ofiicers, clerks, watchmakers, medical students. 



Such seem the most remarkable points connected with the 

 Russian Esquimaux in general. They are few in number, be- 

 cause it is the plan of the writer not so much to exhibit the 

 whole details of the race to which they belong, as to put for- 

 ward prominently such characteristics as are differential to 

 them and the Esquimaux of Greenland and Labrador. 



