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(11) The ethnographical section of Sagoskin's voyage 1843 

 44 in Erdmann's Archive 1849. 



(12) W. H. Dall: Alaska and its resources 1870. 



(13) Adelung's Mithridates 1816. 



(14) Statistische und ethnographische Nachrichten etc.... 

 von Contre- Admiral Wrangell. St. Petersburg 1839. 



( 1 5) Die Bevolkerungsverhaltnisse der Trchukschen-Habinsel 

 von Dr. Aurel Krause. Deutsche Geogr. Blatter 1883. 



(16) Veniaminow's Aleutian and Kadjakian Grammars (pub- 

 lished in Russian) 1846. 



(17) Sauer: Account of Billing's voyage 1785 94 Lon- 

 don 1802. 



(18) F. Boas: An article on Baffin's Land in Mittheil- 

 ungen aus Justus Perthes geogr. A. 1885, and a list of words 

 kindly sent me in manuscript. 



(19) Lieutn. Ray: Report on the Point Barrow Expedition 

 Washington 1885. 



Besides occasional notes in other works, and those written 

 down by the Danish expedition to East Greenland as well as 

 various communications by other Arctic travellers, my original 

 collection of written traditions etc. 



The written language, letters and signs. 



On account of the imperfect manner in which the words 

 spoken by the natives were caught up and interpreted, the 

 first vocabularies naturally exhibited supposed dialectic differences 

 which in reality did not exist. The misunderstanding and con- 

 fusion came partly from the peculiar sounds, partly and especi- 

 ally from the strange construction of the language, which con- 

 trasts completely with our way of inflecting words and arranging 

 sentences. As to the sounds there can be no doubt, that the 

 general character of all the Eskimo talks is uniform enough to 

 admit their being expressed by the same system of letters. In 



