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the index of mental ability, we have shown that the eagle-like tenant of his north- 

 ern fastness was worthy of his eyrie. Again, will it appear that here on the con- 

 fines of nations, in the same tomb, the two great types of the human races, the 

 dolicocephalic and the brachycephalic heads, were together embalmed. 



When the Russians discovered the islands the Kamschatdale interpreters, who 

 could speak the language of the Aleut group could not understand the dialect of 

 the natives of the Fox Islands. To obtain their objects they resorted to the cun- 

 ning device of utilizing the paternal affection of the chiefs. Under pretense of 

 keeping the peace and insuring the tribute of seal skins, exacted by the Russian 

 Government, they caused the sons of tO)fgons, or chiefs, to be delivered to them as 

 hostages. These they sent to Kamschatka to acquire the Russian language. The 

 celerity and aptitude with which these boys learned to interpret went far to 

 prove the natural intelligence of the people so more than barbarously treated 

 by them as barbarians. As reward for their services they converted them as usual 

 to Christianity, but piously took their skins ; nor did they fail to appropriate their 

 women, which, as '■'■ante Trojam fuii," was always the cause of their wars with 

 the Russians. Their hospitality, kindness, and indispensable aid to the invaders 

 of their realm were devoted and unceasing, until deceived, as were other Indians 

 by Cortes and Pizarro, by lust, and the " aurt sacra fames. "^^ 



The existence of three languages, or perhaps dialects, may be inferred, for 

 Coxe states, (page 264,) that the inhabitants of Unalaska were called Khigolaghi ; 

 those next eastward to Unimak were named Kighigusi, and those of Unimak and 

 Alaxa, were styled Kalaghayekiki. In 1741 Bering sighted and Steller first 

 landed on the American continent. (Coxe, page 277). 



The Russians conquered Kamschatka in 1696, taking 45 years to discover the 

 way from shore to shore. As the islands then were peopled, so in probability 

 were their languages introduced, by the various tribes of refugees in quest of 

 safety in flight, or as hunters of game from the shores of both continents, or as 

 they mingled before the continents were cleft apart. 



Consul General Heap, of Constantinople, in a recent dispatch, informs the 

 State Department at Washington, that the Turkish authorities have determined 

 to grant the concession desired by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, of the right to investigate the remains of an ancient Greek city upon 

 Turkish soil. It will take some weeks for the concession to go through all the 

 red-tape process of the Turkish Government, but there is no reason to doubt that 

 the expedition will be on its way next month, and that the work will begin at the 

 ancient city early in February. This expedition is unprecedented. 



■ Their phallic customs are more worthy of leniency than are the morbid abuses of other people. 



