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(6) THE NATIVES OF KING WILLIAM'S LAND, accordiog to 

 Schwatka (Science 1884), are divided into 5 tribes. Althougt 

 wandering and changing their dwelhng places the families or 

 individuals belonging to each of them maintain their union. 

 One of them, the Kiddelik (Copper-Eskimo nearest to Cape 

 Bathurst), live in open hostility to all the others, who on the 

 other hand are on more or less friendly terms with each other. 



(7) THE NAME FOR WHITE MEN. In the Journal of the 

 Anthropological Institute 1885 I have said: «It is curious that 

 the natives of Greenland , Labrador and the Mackenzie river 

 have agreed in adopting (the name) qavdlwuiq for white men». 

 As to this question Simpson states , that he never could find 

 any one among the people of Point Barrow who remembered 

 having seen Europeans before 1837, but that they had heard 

 of them as Kablunan from their eastern friends ; more recently 

 they heard a good deal of them from the inland tribes as 

 Tanin or Tangin. Simpson mentions at the same time the 

 intertribal trade and explains how commodities exchanged in 

 this way will take almost 5 years to wander from Bering's 

 strait to Hudson's bay or the opposite way. If this be taken 

 duly into consideration it does not seem improbable , that the 

 report on the arrival of the first whalers in Davis strait can 

 during the lapse of years have found its way to Mackenzie 

 river. It needs hardly to be added, that the invention of «new 

 words» by the first Eskimo settlers on the arctic shores has 

 no analogy whatever to the fact here mentioned. 



(8) THE ICE-PERIOD. The origin of the Eskimo has, as 

 well known, even been traced back to an earlier geological 

 age and placed in relation with the glacial period. It has been 

 suggested, that formerly they lived nearer to the north-pole and 

 that they retired to the south as the climate became colder. 

 Others have conjectured that once they lived as far to the 

 south as the New England coast and gradually made their way 

 toward the north with the walrus, the great auk and the polar 



