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Eskimo; (8) Norton Sound; (9)N"uniwak; (10) Cape Nome ; (11) 

 Bristol Bay; (12) Kadiak and the mainland. For the Greenland 

 Eskimo the sub-divisions made by Dr. Rink, into Eastern, Western 

 (Northern and Southern branches;, and Northern will probably be 

 sufficient. There would appear to be some differences, in dialect and 

 other matters, between the various settlements of the Labrador 

 Eskimo, at Okkak, Ungava, and Stupart's Bay, a short vocabulary 

 from which latter region has been furnished by Mr. R. F. Stupart.* 

 The differences between these again and the Eskimo of the Cumber- 

 land Sound region are also noticeable. The Eskimo of Baffin Land 

 are arranged by Dr. Fi-anz Boas f in seven divisions ; distinguished 

 by peculiarities in dress, methods of hunting and fishing, language, 

 etc., thus — Two important tribes possess the north coast of Hudson's 

 Straits, one the peninsula between Frobisher Bay and Cumberland 

 Sound. The remainder of Davis Sti'ait is divided by the Eskimo 

 into three parts, viz., Aggo, Akudnirnan, Oxo, the tribal distinctions 

 being the Aggomiut, Akudnirmiut and Oxomiut. The termination 

 raitU, which here appears, is not really a ti'ibal name, but simply 

 means, "dwelling," the Aggomiut are those who dwell in Aggo. 

 Some authors, not taking the trouble to investigate the use and mean- 

 ing of this suffix, have talked about the various tribal divisions of 

 the Eskimo, whereas such distinctions, as are found, are as I have 

 just pointed out, geographical. The Eskimo of the Churchill River,^^ 

 seem to differ considerably in dialect both from the Eastern Eskimo 

 and those of the Mackenzie River, whilst the Winter Island Eskimo 

 though resembling those of Labrador in dialect, have nevertheless 

 their distinguishing peculiarities. The Eskimo words collected by 

 Hall,§ seem to contain some peculiarities both of the Labrador and 

 of the Alaskan dialect. The nasal n which is found in Aleut || as the 

 sign of the Nominative, occurs frequently in Hall's words (Rooming, 

 ooming, etc.), instead of the k, which is more general in the Central 

 and Eastern dialects. 



Another considerable collection of Eskimo is to be found on 

 Andersons River, but they are not very sharply distinguished 



* Eskimo of Stupart's Bay, Proc. Can. Inst., 3rd. Series, Vol. iv., p. 113-114. 

 t Die Saijen der Baffinland Eskimos, Verh. der Berl. Gesell. fur Anthrop. Ethnol. u. Urgesch. , 

 1885, S. 162. 



♦Petitot, Vocab. Frangais-Esquim., 1875. 



§With the Esquimaux, 1865. 



II Henry, Grammaire raisonnee de la Langue Aleoute. 



