\-Il.] 



THE CHURCHES A MIXTURE OF EACES. 



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descent, to get their children to speak any other language than 

 that of the natives, and how they, on their part, seldom borrow 

 a word from the Europeans, how common mixed marriages and 

 natives of mixed blood are even now — in view of all this it 

 appears to me much more probable that Erik the Red's 

 colonists were quietly and peacefully converted into Eskimo, 

 than that they were killed by the Eskimo. A single century's 

 complete separation from Europe would be sufficient to 



CHUKCH BONE CARVINGS OF BIRDS. 



Size of the originals. 



carry out thoroughly this alteration of the present European 

 population of Greenland, and by the end of that jDeriod the 

 traditions of Danish rule would be very obscure in that land. 

 Perhaps some trifling quarrel between a ruler of the colony and 

 a native would take the foremost place among the surviving 

 traditions, and be interpreted as a reminiscence from a war of 

 extermination. 



Even the present Chukches form, without doubt, a mixture of 



