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(c) the ASIATIC ESKIMO whose number is very doubtful, but 

 by Krause believed not to exceed 2000. 



There is still some difference prevailing in the statements 

 concerning the classification of these Western tribes. I have 

 here followed the distinguished Alaska explorer Dall, the first 

 who has laid down their distribution on a map. Some import- 

 ant additions may still be expected from later expeditions, especi- 

 ally corcerning the Inland tribes (at the Kuwak river by Healy, 

 Cantwell and Stoney etc.). 



2. THE MACKENZIE ESKIMO OR TCHIGLIT. 



They are separated from the Western by an uninhabited 

 coastline of 300 miles on which, however, they meet from both 

 sides each summer for the purpose of bartering. They are 

 divided by Petitot into TAREORMICT and KRAMALIT numbering 

 together 2000 souls. 



3. THE TRIBES OF THE CENTRAL REGIONS. 



They begin at Cape Bathurst and are said to be sharply 

 divided from the former, but as to the whole extent of the 

 vast district occupied by them^ our knowledge is more or less 

 defectuous. Besides the older renowned explorers, as Parry, 

 Ross, Rae, Mc. Clintock, Allen Young and others, we are espe- 

 cially indebted to Schwatka and Boas for linguistic contributions. 

 The first named states that the SOUTHWESTERN PART is divided 

 between the following tribes: (a) Natsilik, (b) Pelly-Bay, (e) Uv- 

 kusigsalik, (d) Ukiolik, (e) Kidelik (Coppermine river). Boas gives 

 a specified list of the inhabitants of BAFFIN'S LAND, and describes 

 the roads by which they have had intercourse with the more 

 distant tribes. Some acquaintance with the extreme north 

 about SMITH'S SOUND and with the south as far as REPCLSE-BAY 

 seems to have been entertained in the middle part by occasional 

 native travellers; but between the east and west only a very 

 scanty intercourse ever seems to have existed. The western 



