to guide us in our investigations concerning the obscure history 

 of the nation. It is the above mentioned new words invented 

 during the transition of the Eskimo to their present state as a 

 really arctic people, that first have to be objects of our investiga- 

 tions. While the uniformity of the language in general must be 

 derived from a common source before their migration to the nor- 

 thern shores, the subsequent dispersion might be supposed to 

 have tended to cause greater differences especially in regard to 



the new designations. But just the contrary proved to be the 



t 

 result from duly examining them. The classes into which the 



glossary divided the words in general had no reference to those 



here in question, that had to be picked out and gathered from 



different classes, as for instance parts of the body, animals, 



hunting implements etc. , and it was striking to observe , that 



with regard to the most important of them, the dialects exhibited 



the most complete resemblance or rather identity. Of course 



various doubts can be raised as to the question about what 



might be considered as belonging to the new words etc., but 



even if allowance was given to objections in regard to such, 



the proofs appeared so evident in favour of certain conclusions 



relating to the development of the present Eskimo culture, that 



no doubt could exist about them. They are: 



1. That the original Eskimo, if they have issued from the 



interior continent, have not followed diverging directions, but 



ARRIVED AT THE SHORES OF THE ARCTIC SEA STILL IN WHAT 



MAY BE CONSIDERED ONE BODY. The maritime country which 



here they first occupied, we will call the Eskimo culture home-, 



to be distinguished from the original cradle of their race. 



THEY CAN ONLY HAVE HAD ONE SUCH. CULTURE HOME, howsoever 



they gained it, along the seashore or directly from the interior. 



Certainly there are several reasons for believing, that after the 



dispersion of the first emigrants issuing from the culture home 



had commenced, bands from the interior may have joined these 



pioneers even in places distant from the culture home, but in 



