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niodeiu Ilaida great canoe, the East Indian or the Malay-Polynesian 

 craft stand sncli a trip? Are there landlocked seas all the way, snch 

 as East Indians, Malays, and Haidas paddle in at home, at the present 

 moment ? Had either people, before contact with whites, the ai)i)liauces 

 and the skill for snch an excursion ? 



3. Currents and hiyhways. — In which direction do the ocean currents 

 move along the route indicated — toward America or from America"? 



4. AVinds and temperature. — What winds blow along the Asiatic 

 coast, about Bering Sea, and the archipelagos of the northwest Amer- 

 ican coast? What is the effect on the atmosphere of the Avinds which 

 blow from these currents and from the Tropics in respect of climate in 

 the countries along the route? Would these winds gradually move 

 peoples toward or away from America? If a boat without a crew were 

 set adrift m the South China Sea, to what point would it drift? What 

 series of isotherms are included in this area? 



5. Suggestions and barriers. — Are there any insurmountable barriers 

 to our Haida Indians or Malays — that is, what would be the most diffi- 

 cult places for them to pass by reason of distance from land to land, 

 exposure to open sea or adverse winds, failure of provisions, or greater 

 allurements in other directions? 



6. Blood. — Admitting that the aborigines of America are from the 

 Eastern Continent, what peoples of the Old World are most like those 

 of the JSTew, anatomically and anthropometrically, by which is meant 

 in skeleton, in muscular development, height, weight, physiognomy, 

 color of the hair, eyes, skin, etc.? 



7. Social structure. — The aborigines of the Western Continent had a 

 social structure built up on the gentile ssystem, practicing endogamy as 

 regards the tribe and exogamy as regards the clan. Now, should our 

 Ilaida Indians find any peoples about the Indian Ocean or elsewhere 

 along the route who had the very same or nearly the same social 

 structure ? 



8. Language. — What testimony does language bear to the kinship of 

 American aborigines with Eastern peoples'? To what languages in 

 the Eastern Continent are the American tongues nearest akin? Does 

 the present condition of the language problem close the door of inquiry 

 concerning migration from Asia to America? 



9. Arts.—Vxx the arts of practical life and the arts of pleasure, what 

 similarities should our company of Haida Indians find? It is freely 

 admitted and indisputable that similarities arise in these respects by 

 stress of the earth and stress of a common brotherhood of man ; but 

 such similarities are more or less functional or general or coordinated. 

 The more that things or customs agree in minute structure, the more 

 specifi-ialiy are they akin and have had the selfsame originators. In 

 other words, the greater the similarity, the less the probability of 

 diverse origins. Are there any arts so akin structurally as to make the 

 theory of independent origin improbable? 



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