to guide us in our investigations concerning the obscure history 

 of the nation. It is the above mentioned new words invented 

 during the transition of the Eskimo to their present state as a 

 really arctic people, that first have to be objects of our investiga- 

 tions. While the uniformity of the language in general must be 

 derived from a common source before their migration to the nor- 

 thern shores , the subsequent dispersion might be supposed to 

 have tended to cause greater differences especially in regard to 

 the new designations. But just the contrary proved to be the 

 result from duly examining them. The classes into which the 

 glossary divided the words in general had no reference to those 

 here in question, that had to be picked out and gathered from 

 different classes, as for instance parts of the body, animals, 

 hunting implements etc., and it was striking to observe, that 

 with regard to the most important of them, the dialects exhibited 

 the most complete resemblance or rather identity. Of course 

 various doubts can be raised as to the question about what 

 might be considered as belonging to the new words etc., but 

 even if allowance was given to objections in regard to such, 

 the proofs appeared so evident in favour of certain conclusions 

 relating to the development of the present Eskimo culture, that 

 no doubt could exist about them. They are : 



1. That the original Eskimo, if they have issued from the 

 interior continent, have not followed diverging directions, but 

 ARRIVED AT THE SHORES OF THE ARCTIC SEA STILL IN WHAT 

 MAY BE CONSIDERED ONE BODY. The maritime country which 

 here they first occupied, we will call the «Eskimo culture home», 

 to be distinguished from the original cradle of their race. 

 THEY CAN ONLY HAVE HAD ONE SÜCH^ CULTURE HOME, howsoever 

 they gained it, along the seashore or directly from the interior. 

 Certainly there are several reasons for believing, that after the 

 dispersion of the first emigrants issuing from the culture home 

 had commenced, bands from the interior may have joined these 

 pioneers even in places distant from the culture home, but in 



