Ixxiv INTRODUCTION. 



charafleriftic marks from the inland inhabitants of North 

 America. That the Greenlanders and they agree in every 

 circumftance of cufloms, and manners, and language, which 

 are demonftrations of an original identity of nation, had 

 been difcovered about twenty years ago *. Mr. Hearne, ia 

 1772, traced this unhappy race farther back, toward that 

 part of the globe from whence they had originally coafled 

 along in their fkin boats, having met with fome of them at 

 the mouth of the Coppermine River, in the latitude of 72% 

 and near five hundred leagues farther Weft than Pickerf- 

 gill's moft Wefterly ftation in Davis's Strait. Their being 

 the fame tribe who now aftually inhabit the iflands and 

 coafts on the Weft fide of North America, oppofite Kamt- 

 fchatka, was a difcovery, the completion of which was 

 referved for Captain Cook. The Reader of the following 

 work will find them at Norton Sound ; and at Oonalafhka, 

 and Prince William's Sound ; that is, near 1500 leagues 

 diftant from their ftations in Greenland, and on the Labra- 

 dore coaft. And left fimilitude of manners fliould be 

 thought to deceive us, a table exhibiting proofs of afiinity 

 of language, which was drawn up by Captain Cook, 

 and is inferted in this work f, will remove every doubt 

 from the mind of the moft fcrupulous inquirer after truth. 



There are other doubts of a more important kind, which» 

 it may be hoped, v/ill now no longer perplex the ignorant, 



* See Crantz's Hiftory of Greenland, VoL i, p. 262 ; where we are told that» 

 the Moravian Brethren, who, v/itli the confent and furtherance of Sir Hugh Pallifer, 

 then Governor of Newfoundland, vifited the Efquimaux on the Labradore coaft, 

 found that their language, and that of the Greenlanders,, do not differ fo much as 

 that of the High and Low Dutch* 



X See Appendix, No. 6. The Greenlanders, as Crantz tells us, call themfelves 

 Karalit ; a word not very unlike Kanagyjl, the name, aflumed by the inhabitants of 

 Kodiack, one of the Schumagin iflands, as Stjehlin informs us. 



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