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Then he jiroceeded to the coast, and by ajjpointment met Mr. 

 Hunt at the northern end of Vancouver Island. There he spent 

 the whole summer, visiting the fishing villages of the Indians 

 and carrying on studies on their languages and customs. He 

 also made a collection of plaster casts of Indian types. 



On his return journey Mr. Teit met Dr. John R. Swanton,who 

 was about to visit Queen Charlotte Islands in order to study the 

 Haida Indians. In September, igoo. Dr. Swanton was conveyed 

 by steamer to Skidegate, where he located for the winter. The 

 Haida, who in former times lived in numerous villages all along 

 the coasts of the islands, are so much reduced in numbers that 

 they are now confined to two ^•illages, while a portion of the 

 tribe has located in southern Alaska. After several months sj^ent 

 at Skidegate, Dr. Swanton went to Masset, the northern village 

 of the Haida, by canoe, and later visited Alaska. Finally he 

 returned to Skidegate to take up some loose ends of his work, 

 and returned east after a stay among the Haida which extended 

 over more than a year. His work was supplemented by that of 

 Dr. Charles F. Newcombe, who visited all the deserted villages 

 of the Haida in a small boat, getting information on their exact 

 location and on the geography of the country. At the same 

 time he made a collection of plants. 



In the years igoi and 1902 Jlessrs. Hunt and Teit continued 

 their studies for the expedition. 



The isolated tribes along the east coast of Asia embrace 

 the ^\inu of Yezo and Saghalin, the Gilyak of the Amur River, the 

 Kamchadal of the Peninsula of Kamchatka, the Koryak of the 

 north coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, the Chukchee of the extreme 

 northeastern jiart of Siberia, the Chuvantzy of the region west 

 of the Chukchee and the Yukaghir of the Kolyma. In com- 

 paratively recent times Tungus tribes have settled in the territory 

 whicli was probably originally inhabited by the other tribes alone. 



The investigations on the Amur River were intrusted to Dr. 

 Berthold Laufer and Mr. Gerard Fowke. Dr. Laufer had de- 

 voted himself to the study of the Tibetan language and of the 

 history of .\siatic cultures, and was well prepared to take up the 



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