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gebliebene Reste einer ehenialigen zahlreicheren nach Amerika hiniiber 

 gezogen Bevblkerung." The number of the Asiatic Eskimo, inchid- 

 ing those of St. Lawence and Diomede Islands was about 2000. 

 The Chukluk or Yuit in his opinion undoubtedly belong to the Eskimo 

 stock and have wandered across the sti^aits from America. They 

 wandered southwards and in 1879 had reached as far asCapeOlintorsk. 

 The sea-coast of the Thcuktchi Peninsula from Point Tchaplin to the 

 Anadyr, as well as parts of the East Coast are peopled by Eskimo, call- 

 ed Namollo by Ltitke, Tuski by Hooper and Dall, and by themselves 

 at Ithygane (or Chukluk), Chuklukmut. Dr. Carl Neumann ^ says 

 that the Asiatic Eskimo or Tchouktchis retain a distinct recollection 

 of the fact that their forefathers crossed the Straits from America - 



Dr. Franz Boas,'- who for some time resided among the Eskimo of 

 the Cumberland Sound and Baffin's Land region, and had especial 

 opportunities of studying their habits, legends, language, etc., con- 

 cludes, "Durchdiese Thatsachen gewinnen wir den Eindruck, dass 

 die friiheren Formen der Sagen sich westlich von Baffin's Bay finden, 

 was auf eine Yerbreitung der Eskimos iiber den Smith-Sund schliessen 

 lasst. Yerbinden wir dieses mit dem Umstande, dass die Sagen der 

 Ungava Eskimos stets nach Norden iiber die Hudson Strasse verlegt 

 werden, dass man in Baffin Land stets liber die Fury und Hecla 

 Strasse fort nach Siiden als dem Schauplatz alter Sagen hinweist, und, 

 dass die westlichen Eskimos ebenso den Osten als das Land ihrer 

 sagenhaften Hel4en und Stamme betrachten, so gewimit die Yermu- 

 thung an Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass im Westen des Hi;dson-Bay 

 Gebietes, die Heimath der weitverbreiteten Stamme ist." In the 

 West, then, of the Hudson's Bay, region, was according to Dr. Boaz 

 the home of the primitive Eskimo Race ; they crossed Fury and 

 Hecla Straits from the South ; thence a portion of the migrating 

 tribes turned southwards and peopled Labrador, whilst another 

 journeyed towards the North and reached Greenland. Dr. Boaz 

 thinks that after Greeley's discoveries at Lake Hazen, there is no 

 longer room for doubt, that the great extent of territory in that 

 direction was once peopled throughout by Eskimo ; he also inclines 

 to the opinion that the East Greenlanders " reached their present 



1. Dr. C. NeuniannsTchouk. Exped., Transl. byCapt. Clarke, Proc. Roy. Geo. Soc, x.\i.p. 217. 



2. Die Saj^en der Baffin Land Eskimos, Verb, der Berl. Gesell. flir Anthrop. Etbnol. u. Urgesch., 

 1885, S. 166. 



3. Cf. Rink— Nature, Jan. 27, 18.^7. 



