188 POSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF A TRIBE IN THE FAR NORTH, 



They will have taken a route from Siberia to the north of the 

 Parry Islands ; while another division of the wanderers passed 

 along the southern shores, to the region between the Melville and 

 Humboldt glaciers. But man is not the only animal that has 

 journeyed round the northern side of Greenland. The musk-ox is 

 not known in the inhabited parts of that region. It is a peculiarly 

 American form. Yet the crew of the Polaris found it up Smith 

 Sound, and the Germans met with it on the east coast. The little 

 Mas Hudsonicus is also American, and unknown in West Greenland, 

 and it also was found by Dr. Bessels. These are direct and posi- 

 tive proofs of migrations along the northern face of Greenland from 

 the American side, and of an inhabitable region, capable of sup- 

 porting very large ruminants, within the unknown area. 



The problems thus indicated are among the most interesting that 

 will occupy the attention of the Arctic Expedition. In the possible, 

 if not probable, event of a new people being discovered, a list of 

 words in ordinary use among their distant kindred in West Green- 

 land will be needed for comparison. A sketch of the grammar 

 from Crantz and Janssen, and some vocabularies, have therefore 

 been prepared. The vocabularies have been collected from Admiral 

 Washington's little book, 1 with additions from Crantz, Kane, 

 Janssen, 2 and Kleinschmidt. 3 



Names of Arctic Highlanders. 

 {From Kane, Hayes, and Bessels.') 



Akomodah (K.), a fat boy in 1S54, son of Metek. 



Alatah (H.). 



Amalatoh (K.), half-brother of Metek. 



Analc (K.), wife of Nessak. 



Angeit (H.), "the catcher." Son of Kablunet. Brother of Mrs. Hans. 



Aninguak (K.), wife of Marsumah. 



Arko (H.), " spear thrower." A boy of 12 in 1860. 



AumaneJik (K.), wife of Tellerk. 



Awahtok (K.). . 



Cheichenguak (H.) . 



Irki{K.). 



Itukidhu (B.), a good hunter. 



Ivdllu (B.), wife of Itukichu. 



1 Admiral Washington's vocabulary of Greenland Eskimo was drawn up for 

 him by Mr. Ntisted, a Danish Missionary, in 1852 ; and every word was gone 

 over and revised by Erasmus York (Kalli-hirua), under the supervision of the 

 Rev. Henry Bailey, Warden of St. Augustine's College at Canterbury, and of Dr. 

 Rost, then Professor of Sanscrit at that college. 



2 ' Elementarbog i Eskimoernes Sprog til brug for Europseerne ved Colonierne 

 i Gronland, bed,' E. C. Janssen. (Kjobenhavn, 1862.) 



3 ' Grammatik der Gronl'andischen Sprache nut theilweisem Einschluss des 

 Labradordialects,' von S. Kleinschmidt. (Berlin, 1851.) 



