114 



Notes. 



I. EDITORIAL REMARKS. 



Since the forinei- Volume was written, the author's sources liave 

 been augmented by the following publications: 

 G. Holm: Den østgrønlandske Expedition 1883 — 85 (Second Fart, 



comprising Ethnology) . 

 F. Boas: The Central Eskimo. Washington 1889. 

 H. Abbes: Die Eskimos des Gumberlandgolfs. 



IVoGKR ^^ELLS, Ensign, and .John W. Kelly : English -Eskimo and 

 Eskimo-English Vocabularies , preceded by Ethnographical Me- 

 moranda. Washington 1890. 

 Fr. Fudmann: Eskimoisches Wörterbuch. Zweiter Theil. Budissin 



1866, 

 besides occasional Notes and Articles in other works or Journals. 

 Moreover I have been favoured, as usual, with information by letters, 

 especially from Holm , Boas and Jacobsen. Their valuable com- 

 munications are embodied as far as possible in my Vocabulary, but 

 owing to the narrow limits after wliich it is jilanned , they could 

 not be made use of in this way as amply as they deserved. 



The same necessity of economising in regard to space has 

 also required the linguistical explanations to be made more com- 

 pendious than the author had intended. In turning up in the Voca- 

 bulary and for this purpose applying to the Index, it is supposed 

 that the lists of affixes and stemwords in Vol. 1 are at hand. As 

 for the rest the necessary directions are given in p. 34 and 98. It 

 might only be repeated here, that in order to simplify the text the 

 flexional forms of the Eskimo word and its English translation are 

 not always congruent. As to verbs f. i. the forms : he does, to do 

 and doing, may be found in the Vocabulary rendered by the same 

 standard form : he does (ending : 2Щ > >^Щ > ^Щ > or including an 

 object: 7>a, va, â) , although the infinitive may as well be repres- 

 ented in Eskimo {hme, Ingo, and the affix neq). In the same way 

 the English adjective (f. i. large) may be found rendered by a 



