CONTENTS. 



Page 



THE ORIGIN OF THE ESKIMO AS TRACED BY THEIR 



LANGUAGE 1. 



New words needed by the Arctic settlers Culture home 



Dialects Names of animals, boats and implements 



Various words Safe conclusions Further con- 

 clusions Alaska -- Plan of the vocabulary Various 

 Notes: Dangers of the chase; seals of Alaska; Harpoons 

 etc.; long voyages; Cape Bathurst; King William's Land; 

 name for White man"; the iceperiod; stem words; poly- 

 synthetisme. 



COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY . 33. 



Explanation. 



General Part 35. 



1) Existence 2) Relation 3) Quantity 4) Order 



5) Number 6) Time - 7) Change - 8) Cau- 

 sation 9) Space 10) Motion 11) Matter 

 1 2) Intellect 1 3) Communication of Ideas 1 4) Indi- 

 vidual Voluntary powers 15) Intersocial Voluntary p. 



16) Affections. 



Special Part 64. 



17) Person 18) Body 19) Dress and Ornaments 



20) Dwellings etc. 21) Travelling, Hunting and 

 Fishing 22) Numerals 23) Division of Time 

 24) Animals 25) Plants 26) Land and Sea, 

 Lifeless Matter 27) Firmament, Air, Physical actions 



28) Kinship 29) Sociology and Religion 30) Sup- 

 plement. 



Index . 98. 



Specimen of Narrative Style 102. 



Elements of Traditions 107. 



Notes .114. 



1) Literary Sources 2) Ethnographical 3) Tradi- 

 tional 4) Linguistical 5) Additional corrections 

 to Vol. I. 6) Additions to Vol. II. 



Abbreviations 123. 



Errata 123. 



