THE ESKIMO RACE AND LANGUAGE. 289" 



Northern Tinneh or Chippewyan Indians as XJskeem^ or soi'cerers, 

 and a belief exists among all the Indian tribes acquainted with 

 them that they are possessed of supernatural powers." He also 

 remarks that " no intercourse between Eskimos and Indians occurs 

 except in the way of trade ; they never intermarry, and in 

 trading use a sort of ja'gon, neither Indian nor Eskimo." In 

 Alaska there are but few words common to the two languages ;. 

 two of these are kweenyuk (pipe), which the Indians borrowed 

 from the Eskimo ; and tenihuh (moose) which the Eskimo adopted 

 from the Indian. Kohlmeister and Kmoch^ state that " the 

 Eskimo (of Labrador) are very much afraid of the Indians who are a 

 more nimble and active I'ace." McFarlane- says that " the Eskimo of 

 Anderson's River are very friendly with the Batard Loucheux 

 Indians ; that the Hare Indians^ hold the Eskimo in great fear, and 

 are despised by them, in i-eturn being called Nouga (or spittle). Hind* 

 states that " the Naskapies like there allies and friends the Montag- 

 nais, hate the Eskimo, whom they never fail to attack when opportu- 

 nity offers." Dr. Brinton^ observes, " They (Eskimo) are the 

 connecting link between the races of the Old and New Worlds, in 

 physical appearance and mental traits more allied to the former, but in 

 language betraying their nearer kinship to the latter."^ Dr. Brinton^ 

 also calls attention to the fact that the " traditions of the Tuscaroras 

 who placed their arrival on the Virginian coast at about 1300, spoke 

 of the race they found there (called Tacci, or Dogi) as eaters of raw 

 flesh and ignorant of maize. Petitot^ says that the Innok tradition 

 of the creation, disdains mention of the Indians, and upon question- 

 ing the narrator of it, he i-eceived this answer, " Oh, il ne vaut pas la 

 peine d'en pai'ler. lis naquirent aussi dans I'ouest, sur File du Castor,, 

 des laives de nos poux. C'est pourqnoi nous les nommons Itkreleit. 

 lis sont meprisables, mais les Krablunet et les Innoit sont freres." 

 Lyon^ remarks " Of the Indians (Itkaghlie), they (the Eskimo) speak 

 with fear and abhorrence." Richardson^ says of the Eskimo who 

 dwell to the east of Cape Bathurst,-" the reputation of the Kahlunaht 

 or Kahlunet (white men) is superior among them to that of the remote 



1. Loc. eit., p. 57. 



2. In Hind's Labrador, vol. i., p. 259. 3. lb. p. 2.58. 



4. Loc. Cit., vol. ii., p. 101. 



5. Myths of the New World, p. 24. 6. lb. p. 24. 



7. Voc. FranQais-Es(iuini. Monog., p. xxv. 



8. Private Journal of Capt. G. T. Lyon of H.M.S. Heela. Dur. Voy. of Disc, under Capt. 

 Parry, New Ed. Lond., 1825, p. 346. 



9. Arctic Searching Exped. N. Y. Ed., p. 209. #* 



