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Tliat all of the American peoples came originally from Asia, is, I 

 think, an hypothesis for which a great deal might be said. Unless 

 they originated there or were autochthonic, an idea which may at 

 once be dismissed ; they could scarcely have come from anywhere else, 

 * * * but the central question is whether the Eskimo are of a 

 later date than the Indians or are really Indians compelled to live 

 under less favorable conditions than the rest of their kinsfolk. The 

 latter will, I think, be found to be the most reasonable view to 

 adopt. * * * 



"Doctor Kink seems not far from the truth when he indicates 

 the rivers of Central Arctic America as the region from whence the 

 Eskimo spread northward. * * * 



" It is not at all improbable that the original progenitors of the 

 race may have been a few isolated families, members of some small 

 Indian tribe, or the decaying remnants of a larger one. Little by 

 little they were expelled from their hunting and fishing grounds on 

 the original river bank until, finding no place amid the stronger 

 tribes, they settled in a region where they were left to them- 

 selves. * * * 



" It may, however, be taken as proved that the Eskimo are in no 

 respect and never were a European people; that they are not and 

 never were an Asiatic one, except to the small extent already de- 

 scribed; that the handful of people settled on the Siberian shore 

 migrated from America, and that it is very probable the Eskimo 

 came from the interior of Arctic America, Alaska more likely than 

 from any other part of the world." 



Virchow, 1877 : 84 "Ich mochte namentlich darauf aufmerksam 

 machen. class diejenigen. welche den niichsten Anknupfungspunkt 

 fur die Urbevolkerung Amerika's bei den Eskimo's suchen, welche 

 ferner die Sprache und die Formen der Eskimo's nach Asien hinein 

 verfolgen, leicht ein petitio principii machen ditrften. insofern als 

 es wohl sein konnte, dass sie ein spiiteres Phanomen fur ein fruheres 

 halten. Warum sollte nicht die Einwanderung der Eskimo's von 

 Asien erst erfolgt sein, nachdem liingst andere Theile des Continents 

 ihre Bewohner erhalten hatten? " 



1878 : 85 "Nun ist es sehr bemerkenswerth. dass gegeniiber dieser 

 physiognomischen Aehnlichkeit der Eskimos und der Mongolen eine 

 absolute Dift'erenze Zwischen ihnen in Bezug auf die Schadelkapsel 

 existirt" (examined six living Greenland Eskimos). 



M Virchow. R.. Anthropologie Amerika's. Verb. Bprl. Ges. Anthr., etc.. .Tahrg. 1877 

 (with Z. Ethnol.. 1877. ix i , pp. 154-55. 



«= Eskimos. Vert. Berl. Ges. Anthr., etc., 1878, pp. 185-189 (with Z. Ethnol., 



1878, I), p. 186. 



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