CONTENTS. 



I. THE ESKIMO TRIBES, THEIR COMiMON ORIGIN, THEIR DIS- 

 PERSION AND THEIR DIVERSITIES IN GEiNERAL 1. 



Inventions for procuring the necessary means of subsistence (6) — 

 Dwellings (10) — Dress and ornaments (12) — Domestic industry 

 and arts (15) — Religion and folklore (16) — Sociology (21) — 

 Distribution and Division (31). 



II. THE ESKIMO LANGUAGE, ITS ADMIRABLE ORGANISATION 



AS TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND FLEXION OF WORDS . . 35. 



The written language, letters and signs (39) — The parts of 

 speech, the organisation of the language exhibited in its mode of 

 construing and inflecting words (46) — Nouns and their flexion 

 (49) — Particular nouns (52) — Verbs and their flexion (53) — 

 Particles (60) — Syntax (61) — Construction of words by means 

 of the dependent stems or affixes (63) — List of affixes, with ex- 

 amples of their usre (65). 



III. COMPARATIVE LIST OF THE STEM WORDS OR INDEPEiNDEiNT 

 STEMS OF THE ESKIMO DIALECTS, WITH EXAMPLES OF 

 THEIR DERIVATIVES 77. 



