•314 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



languages. * Dr. Eschscholtz has undertaken, 

 with the assistance of an Aleutian who accom- 

 panied us, to clear up the Aleutian dialect, and 

 its very intricate grammar. He was resolved to 

 conclude this equally difficult and meritorious 

 work which he had begun ; and it is to be hoped, 

 that the necessary assistance of his protege in this 

 labour, will not be withdrawn from him. 



In the Aleutian, as well as in the Greenland 

 dialects, there is a remarkable difterence in the 

 language of the men and of the women. 



The Kamtschadales do not belong to this branch. 

 They are, likewise, a Mongol race, and speak 

 different dialects of a seemingly peculiar language. 

 This people is now almost entirely extinct under 

 its new foreign yoke. (Vide Krusenstern, vol. ii. 

 chap. 8.) 



The author is not competent to speak on the 

 Aleutians and the Russian American Company. 

 He would only be able to express his wounded 

 feelings and his commiseration. Whoever, ac- 

 cording to established custom, disregards the right 

 of a defenceless people to their native liberty, 

 must allow that, under this rigorous clime, poverty 

 is wretchedness, and the Aleutians are poor and 

 miserable to an unheard-of degree, compared to 

 the more prosperous, robust, and independent 



* Mitliridates, vol. iii. part f5, p. 432, and Linguaruni Index, 

 p. 85. 



