ESKIMO RACE AND LANGUAGE. 9 



to favoi" a modification of Dr. Boas' theory, which would bring the 

 Eskimo into close relationship with the great Huron-Cherokee family, 

 whose piimitive seat is placed by Horatio Hale " in Eastern Canada 

 on the banks of the St. Lawrence," and with the mound-builders of 

 the Ohio Valley, whilst behind the latter would be primitive Aztecs, 

 of the Colorado-California region. He pointed out that the root of 

 the word for copper is the same in Eskimo (Jcan7iu-yak), Iroquois 

 (kana-dzia), Mohawk (quennies) and Japanese (kae-e), and suggested 

 tliat the Japanese, who are but comparatively late intruders into 

 Niphon, may have been an offshoot of and the present representatives 

 of the mysterious mound builders. He referred to the question of the 

 former southward extension of the Eskimo, thinking that there was 

 much to favor the theory of Dr. C. C. Abbott, Prof. E. W. Claypole, 

 etc., that the palfeolithic man of the river-drift of New Jersey, is now 

 represented by the Eskimo. He also discussed the imp )rtant theory 

 first advanced by Professor Boyd Dawkins in 1S66, and since advo- 

 cated by Mortillet, the distinguished French anthropologist, that the 

 Eskimo is the modern i-epresentative of the man of the pahieolithic 

 I'iver-drift of France, and thought that the Eskimo probably came 

 from Europe, although much might be saiil in favor of deriving palae- 

 olithic man from America. Indeed, Baron Nordenskjold has ad- 

 vanced the view that the Eskimo are the remnants of an ancient 

 Polar or Hyperborean race, once much more extensive and important. 

 T e author stated his reasons for believing that relatives of the 

 Eskimo are to be found in the fossil men of Brazil, as well as among t 

 the Botocudos, Fuegians, and other South American tribes. He 

 thought there was a sub stratum of dolichocephalic Eskimo-like races, 

 followed by immigrants from Europe or North Africa, of Basque or 

 Iberian ancestry. He gave comparative vocabularies to illi;strate 

 the connection between the Eskimo dialects and the languages of 

 British Columbia ; those of the Huron- Algonkin, Cherokee-Choctaw, 

 and other Indian stocks. He pointed out, however, that while the 

 American Indian languages are strongly agglutinative and incorporat- 

 ing, the Eskimo language is agglutinating only. In illu.stration of 

 the language he presented vocabularies, drawn from vai'ious sources, 

 of some twenty five Eskimo dialects, including those of Davis and 

 Frobisher, which seem to have been overlooked by Mr. Pilling in 

 his recently published biography of the Eskimo language. A most 



