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the earth, the shortest and easiest liiglnvay upon the globe. I omit here 

 the supposed route from Europe to Greenhuid. simply because it 

 demands certain geological changes, all of Avhich the writer is now 

 trying to avoid ; also those lines straight across the parallels from 

 Polynesia, because the food supply was inadequate and the motives 

 not apparent. Migrations of this sort are not denied or aflirmed; 

 they are simply laid aside for the present. 



A HYPOTHETICAL CASE. 



The Haida Indians of British Columbia annually voyage as many as 

 500 miles southward to Puget Sound to lay in a supply of dried clams 

 and oysters for their own consumption and for trade. 

 . Let us imagine a company of them or of their ancestors, no matter 

 how many centuries ago, setting out from the Indian Ocean in an open 

 boat no better than the one they now employ, and governed by the 

 same commonplace motives. The peoples that our Ilaida would have 

 to encounter now, or, better, those among whom the investigator would 

 have mingled four hundred years ago, would have been — 



1. Malay-Polynesians, who would have transported him to the con- 

 fines of Japan. 



2. The Japanese, and many hundreds of years ago the primitive 

 Koreo-Japanese or their ancestors, or the i>rimitive peoples of the islands 

 and peninsula. Their plate armor and hexagonal weaving he would 

 encounter as far as numbers 8 to 10 on the map. 



3. Hiding astride of reindeer, drawn by dogs or reindeer, in bark 

 canoes and dugouts, and at times in canoes lashed together or walking 

 on snowshoes, the traveler might have gotten as far as Norton Sound. 



4. The Eskimo would have been his companions from Plover Bay in 

 Asia to Cook Inlet, or to East Greenland, and their dress, often in 

 Asiatic reindeer skin, as well as the identity of their industrial appa- 

 ratus, would have prevented any shock in passing to the other side 

 of the world. 



5. As soon as Mount St. Elias was reached and the area of the great 

 cedars was encountered, the traveler would again enter a dugout canoe, 

 whose lines and means of locomotion would uot be strange to him. He 

 would see men clad in plate armor, wearing greaves on their legs as 

 they did in Japan. All sorts of fishing apparatus and traps, and even 

 the tales they told him, would appear familiar. 



6. On the Columbia, the salmon-eating jieoples would seem old time 

 friends. The canoe, pointed at both ends under water, would remind 

 him of the Amoor, and hereabout he would meet the northern division 

 of the IJto-Aztecan stock, in whose company he might travel as far 

 south as the borders of Chiriqui, ^ 



7. With the Maya, the mixed tribes of the isthmus, the Chibcha, and 

 the Aymara-Kechua tribes he would complete his journey, passing 

 through the lands of potters and stonecutters. 



ID. G. Briutou, The Americau Race, N. Y., 1891, p. 118. 



