NAMES OF ARCTIC HIGHLANDERS. 189 



Kabhmel (11.), " white skin." Wife of Tcheitckenguah. Died iu 1800. Mother of 

 Mis. Hans. 



Kalutah K.). 



Kalli-hirua, or "Erasmus York." Came on board H.M.S. Assistance, 18;>0. at 

 Cape York. At St. Augustine's, Canterbury. Died at St. John's, New- 

 foundland, in 1856. 



Kalutunah (K. and H.), the Angekok, aud, in 1860, Nalcgak of the tribe. The 

 best hunter. 



Ktirtah H.), a girl engaged to Arho in 1860. 



K, sarsoah (II.). '" white hairs." The oldest hunter in the tribe in 1860. 

 ! (K.), " driftwood." A blind old man. 



Marsumah (K.). 



M< rkut (K.j, wife of Hans. Daughter of Shang-hu. 



Meteh EL), " eider duck." Chief of Etah in 18.H. 



Myvk (K. and H.), son of Meteh. A loafer. One of Satan's light infantry. 



Nessak (K.), "jumper hood." 



Nualik, ne Eguok (K.), wife of Meteh. 



Paulik (Iv.), nephew of Meteh. 



Pingasuk I H.), " the pretty one." Child of Hans. 

 l-hu (K.). 



Sip-su (K. and H.), " the handsome boy," murdered by Kalutunah. 



Tatterat (K. and H.), " Kittiwake." Always out at elbows. A loafer. 



TeUerh (K.), "right arm." 



'Vtuniah (K. and H.) 



Note on the Orthography. 



A is to be sounded as in father when long, as the u in bwt when short. 

 E as in there, i as in ravine, o as in more, u as in finite, ai as i in tt'nie, au as 

 oio in hoiv, ok as oak. Ch as in c7mvch, g as in </et, kh as c/i in loc/i. 



The word Esquimaux is a term of the Do^-rib Indians, meaning " flesh 

 eaters," and was first given to the Innuit by the French Canadians, whence 

 the strange orthography. The simpler and proper form, adopted by the 

 Danes and by Admiral Washington, is Eskimo. 



LANGUAGE OF THE ESKIMO OF GEEENLAND. 



Sketch of the Grammar. 



The first Eskimo grammar was by Hans Egede, published in 

 1760. The second, written by Konigseer, in 1780, is still in 

 manuscript. That of Fabricius, who long resided in Greenland as 

 a missionary, appeared in 1791. Kleinschmidt published his 

 Eskimo grammar at Berlin, in 1850; and the vocabularies of 

 Janssen appeared at Copenhagen in 1802. 



TIkj Eskimo language belongs to the American group ; the nouns 

 are declined by the addition of terminations to the roots, and the 

 adjective follows the substantive. There is a great abundance 

 of modes of expression effected by processes of agglutination, 

 the particles conveying various meanings, and modifications of 

 meanings. 



