274 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Continent at a certain season before they finally settled upon them. 

 Peschel ^ seems to doubt whether the Aleutians and Eskimo really 

 belong to the same stock, and Keane - con.siders that they profoundly 

 differ in language. Dr. Rink ^ himself terms them an abnormal 

 offshoot. He does not consider it impossible however, that after the 

 passage into Asia of some portion of the primitive Eskimo stock, 

 some tribes may have migrated back again to the American coast. 

 A. H. Markham* (who however holds to the theory of Asiatic origin 

 of the Eskimo), thought that a distinct line of migration could be 

 traced from Siberia, along the icy shores and islets of the Polar Sea 

 to Greenland. There is however no great necessity to assume such 

 migi'ation. Lieut. Ray/ noting that it is not reasonable to suppose 

 that, had the immigration come from Asia, they would have abandon- 

 ed the deer upon crossing the straits, sketches the route of Eskimo 

 migration as follows: — "The sea-shore led them along the Labrador 

 and Greenland coasts ; Hudson's Bay and its tributary waters carried 

 its quota towards Booth's Land ; helped by Back's Great Fish River 

 the Mackenzie carried them to the N.W. coast, and down the Yukon 

 they came to people the shores of Norton Sound, and along the coast 

 to Cape Prince of Wales. They occupied some of the coast to the 

 south of the mouth of the Yukon and a few drifted across Behring's 

 Straits on the ice." Lieut. Ray says, "that the ancestors of the 

 people of Pt. Barrow had made it their home for age.s, is conclusively 

 shown by the ruins of ancient villages and winter huts along the sea- 

 shore, and in the interior." The investigations of Dall ^ and others in 

 the Caves of the Aleutian Islands would seem to lead to a similar 

 conclusion. Dr. Aurel Krause,^ after journeying in the Eskimo 

 territories observes, " Bemerkt man die gegenwartige Verbreitung 

 der Eskimos in Asien, wird man der Ansicht von Dall und Nordken- 

 siold beistimmen, dass die asiatischen Eskimos aus Amerika einge- 

 wandert sind und nicht, wie Steller und andere vermuthen, zuriick- 



1. Races of Man, 1882. N.Y. Ed., p. 397. 



2. Nature. Jan. 27, 1887. 



3. Vide Nature, Jan. 27, 1887. 



4. Orig. and Migr. of Gd. Esk., Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc, vol. xxvi., 1805, pp. 87-99. 



5. Rep. of Intern. Polar Exp. to Pt. Barrow, Alaska. Wash. 1885. See also Scott. Geog. Ma<{. 

 May 1886. 



6. Prehist. Remains in the Aleut. Is., 1873. See also Alph. Pinart, La Caverne d'Aknanh, ile 

 d'Ounga., 1875. 



7. Die Bevolkerungsverhaltnisse der Tschuktschischen Halbinsel, Verh. der fieri. Gesell. fiir 

 Anthr. Ethn. u. Ureesch., 1883, p. 529. 



