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APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



ETHNOLOGY. 1 

 BY HENRY W. FEILDEN, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S. 



THE Eskimo that inhabit the coasts of North Greenland 

 between Cape York, the northern boundary of Melville Bay, 

 and the Humboldt Glacier, are (with the exception perhaps 

 of the natives of Ellesmere Land) the most northern inhabi- 

 tants of our globe. These sa^aroi avbpwv were discovered 

 by Captain Sir John Ross during his voyage to Baffin's Bay 

 in 1818, and received from him the name of 'Arctic High- 

 landers,' an inappropriate designation for a people of purely 

 littoral habits. The expedition of 1875-76 communicated 

 with some of these people at Cape York on the voyage north- 

 wards ; but in July 1875 the village of Etah, on the north 

 shore of Foulke Fiord, was found temporarily deserted. 

 Etah is the most northern settlement of the Eskimo on the 

 Greenland coast, and the one from where members of the 

 tribe travel in their hunting expeditions as far north as the 

 southern termination of the Humboldt Glacier, a little 

 beyond lat. 79 N., where traces of ancient settlements were 

 discovered by Dr. Kane in Dallas Bay. It has been assumed, 

 somewhat too hastily, that the ( Arctic Highlanders ' are a 

 race completely isolated from any other human beings. From 



1 Extended from the < Zoologist,' 1877, pp. 314-316. 



