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doing so they л\Ьо11у adopted the habits of the latter and be- 

 came amalgamated with them. 



2. The culture home must have been of SMALL EXTENT 

 in comparison with the inhabited tracts of Eskimo countries and 

 their scale of distances in general. In other words its first 

 inhabitants must have been able to maintain A CERTALN DEGIŒE 

 OF MlTtAL HVTERCOL'RSE, sufficient to the development of their 

 common inventions, and to the adaptation of their mode of 

 living and of their simple social organisation to their future 

 arctic homes. A natural consequence of this co-operation was 

 the formation of the series of words mentioned above which we 

 might call the «new» or peculiar Eskimo words. 



COMPARISON OF TBE DIALECTS. In the former volume 

 the author has tried to give a view of the elements, out of 

 which the Eskimo language is constructed, the so called stem- 

 words and affixes in an alphabetic order. In the present part; 

 in some measure, the opposite order is used, showing how the 

 words of the European language are rendered in the Eskimo, 

 distributing them, as above mentioned, according to the ideas 

 or objects to be designated. This arrangement seemed to be 

 conformable to the ethnographic or culture-historical character 

 of the investigations here, and is also, as well known, com- 

 monly used by authors on languages spoken by native on the 

 lower stages of culture. It will be seen that in the present 

 case the schedules proposed by Powell in his «Introduction to 

 the study of Indian languages» are followed. However as the 

 Eskimo language in connection with the missionary work in 

 Greenland and Labrador has been thouroughly studied and 

 perfectly described certainly more than most of even the better- 

 known aboriginal American idioms, a supplement as a »General 

 part» will be inserted, serving to fill out what in the first 

 named -Special part- may be wanting, especially in regard to 

 words relating to more abstract ideas. 



