CONTENTS. 



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I. THE ESKIMO TRIBES, THEIR COMMON ORIGIN, THEIR DIS- 

 PERSION AND THEIR DIVERSITIES IN GENERAL . 1. 



Inventions for procuring the necessary means of subsistence (6) 

 Dwellings (10) Dress and ornaments (12) Domestic industry 

 and arts (15) Religion and folklore (16) Sociology (21) 

 Distribution and Division (31). 



II. THE ESKIMO LANGUAGE, ITS ADMIRABLE ORGANISATION 



AS TO THE CONSTRUCTION AND FLEXION OF WORDS . . 35. 



The written language, letters and signs (39) The parts of 

 speech, the organisation of the language exhibited in its mode of 

 construing and inflecting words (46) Nouns and their flexion 

 (49) Particular nouns (52) Verbs and their flexion (53) 

 Particles (60) Syntax (61) Construction of words by means 

 of the dependent stems or affixes (63) List of affixes, with ex- 

 amples of their use (65). 



III. COMPARATIVE LIST OF THE STEM WORDS OR INDEPENDENT 

 STEMS OF THE ESKIMO DIALECTS, WITH EXAMPLES OF 

 THEIR DERIVATIVES 77. 



