ESKIMO RACE AND LANGUAGE. 9 



to favoi' a modification of Dr. Boas' theory, which would brinsf the 

 Eskimo into close relationship with the great Huron-Cherokee family, 

 whose primitive seat is placed bj Horatio Hale " in Eastern Canada 

 on the Imnks of the St. Lawrence," and with the mound-builders of 

 the Ohio Valley, whilst behind the latter would be primitive Aztecs, 

 of the Colorado-California i-egion. He pointed out that the root of 

 the word for copper is the same in Eskimo {kannu-yak), Iroquois 

 (kana-dzla), Mohawk [quenn ies) and Japanese (kae-e), and suggested 

 that the Japanese, who are but comparatively late intruders into 

 Niphon, may have been an offshoot of and the present representatives 

 of the mysterious mound builders. He referred to the question of the 

 former southward extension of the Eskimo, thinking that there Avas 

 much to favor the theory of Dr. C. C. Abbott, Prof, E. W. Claypole, 

 etc., that the palteolithic man of the river-di'ift of New Jersey, is now 

 repres-'nted by the Eskimo. He also discussed the imp )rtant theory 

 first advanced by Professor Boyd Dawkins in 1866, and since advo- 

 cated by Mortillet, the distinguished French anthropologist, that the 

 Eskimo is the modern representative of the man of the palaeolithic 

 river-drift of France, and thought that the Eskimo probably came 

 from Eui'ope, although much might be said in favor of deriving palae- 

 olithic man from America. Indeed, Baron Nordenskjold has ad- 

 vanced the view that the Eskimo are the i-emnants of an ancient 

 Polar or Hyperborean race, once much more extensive and important. 

 T e author stated his i-easons for believing that relatives of the 

 Eskimo are to be found in the fossil men of Brazil, as well as among t 

 the Botocudos, Fuegians, and other South American tribes. He 

 thought there was a sub stratum of dolichocephalic Eskimo-like races, 

 followed by immigrants fi om Eui'ope or North Africa, of Basque or 

 Iberian ancestry. He gave comparative vocabularies to illustrate 

 the connection between the Eskimo dialects and the languages of 

 British Columbia ; those of the Huron-Algonkin, Cherokee-Choctaw, 

 and other Indian stocks. He pointed out, however, that while the 

 American Indian languages ai-e strongly agglutinative and incorporat- 

 ing, the Eskimo lano-uaare is aojarlutinating only. In illustration of 

 the language he presented vocabularies, drawn from various sources, 

 of some twenty five Eskimo dialects, including those of Davis and 

 Frobisher, whicli seem to have been overlooked by Mr. Pilling in 

 his recently published bioi;ra{)hy of the Eskimo language. A most 



