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to the same age and race this difference could hardly have 

 occurred. This difference in range implies, as we have 

 already observed, that the Biver-drift men belong to the ... 

 southern group of Mammalia, while the Cave-men must 

 be classified with the reindeer, the musk sheep, and other 

 northern animals. After taking these facts into account, 

 they may be referred either to two distinct races, or to 

 two sections of the same race which found 'their way into 

 Europe at widely different times ; the Kiver-drift men 

 being of far higher antiquity in Europe, and probably 

 having lived for countless generations 'before the arrival 

 of the Cave-men and the appearance of the higher culture. 

 We are without a clue to the ethnology of the Kiver- 

 drift man, who most probably is as completely extinct 

 at the present time as the woolly rhinoceros or the cave- 

 bear ; but the discoveries of the last twenty years have 

 tended to confirm the identification of the Cave-man 

 with the Eskimos. 



Relation to the Eskimos. 



On passing under review the manners and customs 

 of all the savage tribes known to modern ethnology, 

 there is only one people * with whom the Cave-men are 

 intimately connected, in their manners and customs, in 

 their art, and in their implements and weapons. The 

 Eskimos range at the present time from Greenland on 

 the east, along the shores of the Arctic Sea, as far to the 

 west as the Straits of Behring, 2 inhabiting a narrow 

 littoral strip of country, and living by hunting, fishing, 



1 This question is discussed also in Chapter IX. of my work on Cave- 

 hunting. 



a It appears also from the letters recently sent home by Professor 

 Nordenskiold that they inhabit the shores of North-Eastern Siberia. 



