THE ESKIMO RACE AND LANGUAGE. 289 



Northern Tinneh or Chippewyan Indians as Uskeeme or sorcerers, 

 and a belief exists among all the Indian tribes acquainted with 

 them that they are possessed of supernatural powers." He also 

 remarks that " no intercourse between Eskimos and Indians occurs 

 except in the way of trade ; they never intermarry, and in 

 trading use a sort of ja gon, neither Indian nor Eskimo." In 

 Alaska thez-e are but few words common to the two languages ; 

 two of these are kweenyuk (pipe), which the Indians borrowed 

 from the Eskimo ; and tenekuh (moose) which the Eskimo adopted 

 from the Indian. Kohlmeister and Kmoch^ state that " the 

 Eskimo (of Labrador) are very much afraid of the Indians who are a 

 more nimble and active race." McFarlane'- says that " the Eskimo of 

 Anderson's River are very friendly with the Biitard Loucheux 

 Indians ; that the Hare Indians^ hold the Eskimo in great fear, and 

 are despised by ihem, in return being called Noiiya (or spittle). Hind* 

 states that " the Naskapies like there allies and friends the Montao-- 

 nais, hate the Eskimo, whom they never fail to attack when opportu- 

 nity offers." Dr. Brinton^ observes, "They (Eskimo) are the 

 connecting link between the races of the Old and New Worlds in 

 physical^ appearance and mental traits more allied to the former, but in 

 language betraying their nearer kinship to tlie Litter." Dr. Brinton" 

 also calls attention to the fact that the " traditions of the Tuscaroras 

 who placed their arrival on the Virginian coast at about 1300, spoke 

 of the race they found there (called Tacci, or Dogi) as eaters of raw 

 flesh and ignorant of maize. Petitot^ says that the Innok tradition 

 of the creation, disdains mention of the Indians, and upon question- 

 ing the narrator of it, he received this answer, " Oh, il ne vaut pas la 

 peine d'en parler. lis naquirent aussi dans I'ouest, sur Tile du Castor, 

 des laives de nos poux. C'est pourqiioi nous les noinmons Itkreleit. 

 lis sont m^prisables, rnais les KrablunU et les Innoit sont freres." 

 Lyon^ remai-ks " Of the Indians (Itkaghlie), they (the Eskimo) speak 

 with fear and abhorrence." Richardson^ says of the Eskimo who 

 dwell to the east of Cape Bathurst, " the reputation of the Kabhmnht 

 or Kablunet (white men) is superior among them to that of the remote 



1. Loc. dt., p. 57. 



2. In Hind's Labrador, voL i., p. 259, 3. lb. p. 258. 



4. Loc. Cit., vol. ii., p. 101. 



5. Myths of the New World, p. 24. 6. lb. p. 24. 



7. Voc. Francjais-Esquim. Monog-., p. xxv. 



8. Private Journal of Capt. G. T. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla. Dur. Voy. of Disc, under Capt. 

 Parry, New Ed. Lond., 1825, p. 346. 



9. Arctic Searching Exped. N. Y. Ed., p. 209. 



