184 Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute [vol. x 



"Of the 123 episodes or tales (out of 139) most commonly occurring 

 in the Koriak myths, 83 per cent, are met with in the myths of the 

 North American Indians, 29 per cent, in those of the Eskimo, and only 

 18 per cent, in the traditions and tales of the Mongol-Turkic peoples 

 of the Old World. The American elemient in the Koriak myths resembles 

 in form the tales of the Athapaskans [or D6nes], in content those of 

 the Tlingit. These resemblances, J. holds, are clearly due to close 

 relationship of the Indians and the peoples of N.E. Siberia in past times, 

 if not, perhaps, to some extent at least to a common origin of both".^ 



These remarks, which though published a few years ago, I had not 

 noticed before the last few weeks, will, I believe, quite appropriately 

 close this section of my little essay. They are from the pen of the late 

 Dr. Chamberlain, and are based on a study of the "Asiatic and 

 American Element in the Myths of the Koriaks "" by Waldemar Jochelson, 

 of Saint- Petersburg. 



* The American Anthropologist, Vol. VIII, p. 722. 



^ Uber Asiatische und Amerikanische Elemente in den Mythen der Koriaken {Inter- 

 nationaler Amerikanisten-Kongress, Stutgart, 1904; Vol. I, p. 119). 



