l66 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



not fail to be, utterly forgotten. It is a very- 

 remarkable fact that this process, by which 

 even the most sterile regions of the globe 

 have been peopled, is a process which appears 

 to be still in operation. Arctic voyagers have 

 long known that there are lands nearer the 

 Pole than those which they have hitherto been 

 able to reach, and it has been even suspected 

 that there exists there a somewhat milder 

 climate and a more open sea. A whaling 

 ship, which in 1867 reached a more northern 

 point than had hitherto been attained, has 

 brought the curious information that a tribe 

 wandering near Cape Chelagskoi had recently 

 driven another tribe before them across the 

 Frozen Sea to a land lying so far north that 

 only its mountain tops could be occasionally 



