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  ES8ELENIAN 
  FAMILY. 
  75 
  

  

  nothing 
  is 
  known. 
  Dall 
  compiles 
  the 
  full, 
  .wins;- 
  estimates 
  cf 
  the 
  

   Alaskan 
  Eskimo 
  from 
  the 
  most 
  reliable 
  figures 
  up 
  to 
  1885: 
  Of 
  the 
  

   Northwestern 
  Inmiit 
  3,100 
  (?], 
  including 
  the 
  Kopagmiut, 
  Kangma- 
  

   ligmiut, 
  Nuwukrniut, 
  Nunatogmiut, 
  Kuagmiut, 
  the 
  Inguhklimiut 
  

   of 
  Little 
  Diomede 
  Island 
  40 
  (?), 
  Shiwokugmiut 
  of 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  

   Island 
  150 
  (?), 
  the 
  Western 
  Innuit 
  14,500 
  (?), 
  the 
  Aleutian 
  Island- 
  

   ers 
  (Unungun) 
  2,200 
  (?); 
  total 
  of 
  the 
  Alaskan 
  Innuit, 
  about 
  20,000. 
  

  

  The 
  Central 
  or 
  Baffin 
  Land 
  Eskimo 
  are 
  estimated 
  by 
  Boas 
  to 
  

   number 
  about 
  1,100.' 
  

  

  From 
  figures 
  given 
  by 
  Rink, 
  Packard, 
  and 
  others, 
  the 
  total 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  Labrador 
  Eskimo 
  is 
  believed 
  to 
  be 
  about 
  2.000. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  Holm 
  (1884-'85) 
  there 
  are 
  about 
  550 
  Eskimo 
  on 
  the 
  

   east 
  coast 
  of 
  Greenland. 
  On 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  the 
  mission 
  Eskimo 
  

   numbered 
  10,122 
  in 
  1886, 
  while 
  the 
  northern 
  Greenland 
  Eskimo, 
  

   the 
  Arctic 
  Highlanders 
  of 
  Ross, 
  number 
  about 
  200. 
  

  

  Thus 
  throughout 
  the 
  Arctic 
  regions 
  generally 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  total 
  of 
  

   about 
  34,000. 
  

  

  ESSELENIAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  < 
  Salinas, 
  Latham 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Philolog. 
  Soc. 
  Lond. 
  , 
  85. 
  1856 
  (includes 
  Gioloco 
  ?, 
  Ruslen, 
  

   Soledad, 
  Eslen, 
  Carniel, 
  San 
  Antonio, 
  and 
  San 
  Miguel, 
  cited 
  as 
  including 
  Eslen). 
  

   Latham, 
  Opuscula, 
  350, 
  1860. 
  

  

  As 
  afterwards 
  mentioned 
  under 
  the 
  Salman 
  family, 
  the 
  present 
  

   family 
  was 
  included 
  by 
  Latham 
  in 
  the 
  heterogeneous 
  group 
  called 
  

   by 
  him 
  Salinas. 
  For 
  reasons 
  there 
  given 
  the 
  term 
  Salman 
  was 
  

   restricted 
  to 
  the 
  San 
  Antonio 
  and 
  San 
  Miguel 
  languages, 
  leaving 
  

   the 
  present 
  family 
  without 
  a 
  name. 
  It 
  is 
  called 
  Esselenian, 
  from 
  

   the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  single 
  tribe 
  Esselen, 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  composed. 
  

  

  Its 
  history 
  is 
  a 
  curious 
  and 
  interesting 
  one. 
  Apparently 
  the 
  first 
  

   mention 
  of 
  the 
  tribe 
  and 
  language 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Voyage 
  de 
  la 
  

   Perouse, 
  Paris, 
  1797, 
  pane 
  2S8, 
  where 
  Lamanon 
  (1786) 
  states 
  that 
  the 
  

   language 
  of 
  the 
  Ecclemachs 
  (Esselen) 
  differs 
  "absolutely 
  from 
  all 
  

   those 
  of 
  their 
  neighbors." 
  He 
  gives 
  a 
  vocabulary 
  of 
  twenty-two 
  

   words 
  and 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  comparison 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  ten 
  numerals 
  of 
  the 
  

   Achastlians 
  (Costanoan 
  family). 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  short 
  

   vocabulary, 
  published 
  by 
  Taylor 
  in 
  .the 
  California 
  Farmer, 
  October 
  

   24. 
  LS62, 
  that 
  first 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  supposition 
  of 
  the 
  distinctness 
  of 
  this 
  

   language. 
  

  

  A 
  few 
  years 
  later 
  the 
  Esselen 
  people 
  came 
  under 
  the 
  observation 
  

   of 
  Galiano." 
  who 
  mentions 
  the 
  Eslen 
  and 
  Runsien 
  as 
  two 
  distinct 
  

   nations, 
  and 
  notes 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  differences 
  in 
  usages 
  and 
  customs 
  

   which 
  are 
  of 
  no 
  great 
  weight. 
  It 
  is 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  note, 
  however, 
  

   that 
  this 
  author 
  also 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  observed 
  essential 
  differences 
  

  

  1 
  Sixth 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  Bu. 
  Eth.,426, 
  1888. 
  

  

  • 
  Relacion 
  del 
  viage 
  hecho 
  por 
  las 
  Goletas 
  Sutil 
  y 
  Mexicana 
  en 
  el 
  afio 
  de 
  1792. 
  

   Madrid. 
  1802, 
  p. 
  172. 
  

  

  