518 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH.ANX. 18 



An Eskimo living at East cape, Siberia, told me that the first 

 Eskimo who lived on East cape were a man and a woman who came 

 there in two kaiaks from St Lawrence island. The kaiaks turned to 

 stone when, the pair landed, and two peculiarly shaped stones, one on 

 each side of the cape, are pointed out as being these kaiaks. From 

 this pair of people came all of the Siberian Eskimo. 



In those days there were two kinds of people on East cape, who 

 could not understand each other, but after a time the other people 

 went away and only the Eskimo were left, as they are today. 



