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use of the “musk ox route” to Greenland. It is naturally difficult to 
express any opinion as to whether they have reached out along the 
coasts of Greenland and along the Arctic coasts of North America both 
in the direction of Labrador and in the direction of Alaska. Anthropo- 
geographically considered, however, it is most natural to assume that 
the Palæeskimo have to all sides reached as far out as the Arctic Eskimo 
culture occurs at the present date. 
With regard to the migration routes in the Archipelago itself, I 
must state that I am inclined to believe that the main route from the 
coast of the continent to the islands at the northwest coast of Greenland 
(Ellesmere Land and others) has not gone from Boothia Felix Peninsula 
direct towards the north, but that the route has more frequently 
gone from Coronation Gulf along the south-west coast of Victoria Land 
to Prince of Wales Strait; further through this and across Banks Strait 
to the south coast of Melville Island, and thence along the south coast 
of Parry Islands and between these islands to Ellesmere Land. The 
present apportionment of the population, the position of the deserted 
settlements, and the anthropogeographical conditions (the occurrence of 
winter ice and of musk oxen) speak in favour of this route as being parti- 
cularly attractive and accessible (compare the map). 
The Neoeskimo Culture a Result of Foreign Influence 
(acculturation). 
The Palæeskimo must be assumed to have been the first people 
to move into the here mentioned Arctic regions and to adapt their cul- 
ture to an Arctic mode of living after these regions had been freed from 
the ice covering of diluvial times. 
Like other northern cultures the Palæeskimo culture, has, however, 
also later been the subject of influence from more southern regions and 
cultures. But what especially happened with the Eskimo culture was 
that this influence quite particularly took place on the flank of the Eski- 
mo territory .of distribution, viz., in Alaska. While other northern do- 
mains of culture, of somewhat greater extent, received influence in 
places which were geographically different, this was not, or rather only 
in an inferior degree, the case with the Eskimo domain. Here the in- 
fluence set in at one fixed part of the domain, namely in the districts 
at Bering Strait. 
The character of the influence was indicated earlier and in the 
same way I also tried to decide its sources, a task which, however, offer- 
ed special difficulties on account of our inferior knowledge of the ethno- 
graphical and the historical conditions in North-Eastern Asia. In the 
preceding pages I have endeavoured to give a summary of the sources 
for influence which necessarily must have been in activity. 
