UBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



PREFACE. ^'^'<"t^N. 



1 he purpose of the present VoUime is, in th§ first place, as 

 an introduction, to continue the conclusions, which we are able 

 to (Jraw from the mode of life, the customs and usages of the 

 Eskimo mentioned in the former Volume, adding one apparently 

 safe inference from their language, concerning their homestead 

 before their dispersion. Then, as the main object follows the 

 Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects. In the former Part 

 it is tried to give the elements , out of which the words 

 are formed, and the rules for employing this material. In the 

 present Volume a selection of the words themselves is compiled. 

 The arrangement of this Vocabulary will be found explained 

 pp.23 and 113, in connection with some other editorial remarks. 

 There is especially rendered an account of the division into a 

 General and a Special Part, of which Ihe latter is founded on 

 Powell's Introduction to the study of Indian Languages, the former 

 on IIoget's Thsaurus of English Words and Phrases. 



