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mann. Taken altogether the Eskimo language is one of the most 

 interesting for the philologist and the great extent over which it is 

 spoken and its numerous and isolate 1 dialects make it a subject of 

 the highest iraportance to linguistic science. When the Eskimo shall 

 have received the same attention at the hands of students of language 

 as have the Semitic, or the Aryan tougues, I trust I am not far 

 wrong in predicting that an important step will have been taken 

 towards the solution of the problem of the origin of language. 



The earliest vocabularies of the Eskimo language which we possess 

 are those of Davis ( " a few words of the people of Baffiu Bay " ), and 

 Frobisher ( " words of the language of Meta Incognita " ), which I 

 here insert alphabetically ananged : — 



DAVIS' VOCABULARY.^ 



FROBISHER'S VOCABULARY.-' 



1. Hakl. Soc., Voyages of Inc., Davis. Lond. 1886, p. 20. 



2. Voyages in search of N.W. Passage, Cassel's Nat. Lib., vol. i., no. 32., p. 61. 



