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FOSSIL MEN. 



Across the Arctic regions of the continent lay as 

 now the Innuit, Kalalik, or Greenlanders, better known 

 to us by the Algonquin nickname of Esquimaux (Es- 

 kumaget, " he eats raw flesh " ) . On the eastern side 



Fig. 9. SKETCH-MAP SHOWING THE PBOBABLE LINES OF MIGEATION AND 



DlSTEIBUTION OF THE AMEBICAN TEIBES. 



of the continent these poor people have always been 

 separated by a marked line from their Indian neigh- 

 bours on the south, and have been regarded by them 



