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AMERICAN NATIVE RACES OF MEN 



ages from the Caucasian standpoint, but were intelligent 

 and far above the low Australians. In traveling over the 

 country where the Indians now live, the careful observer 

 easily recognizes different types whose ancestors doubtless 

 occupied North America for thousands and tens of thou- 

 sands of years ; so long that high civilizations may have 

 risen, dwindled, and have been utterly wiped out of exist- 

 ence by relentless time. 



Fig. 196. — An Eskimo Family. 



In the north we find the peculiar Eskimo, or Innuit, 

 habituated to the frozen north, preferring this dismal region 

 with all its discomforts. The Eskimos occupy about five 

 thousand miles along the Arctic Ocean from Northeast 

 Greenland to West Alaska, and they can be traced into 

 Asia. They are rarely found more than fifty miles from 



