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habitat by migrating around the northern part of the island-continent 

 of Greenland. The migration of the Western Eskimo along the sea- 

 coasts and water-courses to their present positions, is susceptible of 

 reasonable ex[Janation on Dr. Boas' theory. He divides the Eskimo 

 stock, generally as follows : I. Eastern, the Eskimo of Hudson's 

 Bav, BaflBn Land, Greenland and Labrador ; II. Central, on the 

 north coast from King Williani'.s Land to Cape Bathurst ; III. 

 Westemi, from the Mackenzie westwards. The theory of Dr. Boas 

 would go far to explain many things that are left untouched by the 

 theory advanced by Dr. Rink, though both agree in the fundamental 

 idea of American origin for the Eskimo. It we combine the idea of 

 the western Hudson's Bay region, as the seat of the primitive Eskimo 

 stock, with that advanced l)y Horatio Hale, that " the coui'se of 

 miofration of the Huron-Cherokee family has been from the north- 

 east to the south-west, i.e., from Eastern Canada on the Lower St. 

 Lawrence to the mountains of Northern Alabama," ^ and that con- 

 sequently their primitive abode must have been in the region of 

 Labrador and the Gulf, we get an interesting situation. South of the 

 primitive Eskimo, and Huron-Cherokee families, lay in all probability 

 the Mound-buildei's. It is but reasonable to suppose that contact 

 with one another took place, and we have proof of this in the vocabu- 

 laries of these various stocks. 



Elsewhere,- I have pointed out a few of the Cree and Algonkin 

 loan words in the Eskimo dialects of the Cliurchill and Mackenzie. 

 I have since traced them to the shores of Behring's Straits and into 

 Asia, thus confirming Dr. Boas' view of the position of the cradle- 

 land of the Eskimo, and proving that the far-western Eskimo and 

 those of the Churchill and Mackenzie, as well as those of Labrador 

 (for the loan-words are seen there also), must have lived together in 

 juxta-position to tlie Algonkin stocky tK xA^vr<^u'J- ^ \ 



Examples of these loan-words are : — 



Algonkin, niph/ (water). 

 Miami nipanoue (cold), 

 Chippeway nihi (water), Minsi nibi. 

 Miami ne.peh, Ottawa nipish. 

 Algonk. nipa (die) Cree n'lpiiu (dead). 

 Algonk. nipouin (death) nipnn (sleep). 

 Leuape nipnotii (by night). 



Penobscot nipviuji (night). 



Mass. nippe (water) Isanticoke nip. 



Narrag. nvpouckttov; (to kill). 



Chippeway niba (sleep). 



Mohican nap (die) Narrag. nippitchev;. 



Penob. neebiohst (moon), Montaug 7jeeprt. 



1. Ind. Migr. as evidenced by Lanf^iage, p. 11. 



2. Science, Sep. 2, 1887. 



