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the following example to illustrate his remark about incorporation. 

 The Eskimo would use but a single word to express the idea " he 

 -says that you also are going in haste to buy a beautiful knife" : — 

 sauig - ik - sini - ariartok-asuar-omar - y - otit - tog - og. 

 knife beautiful to buy go haste will likewise thou also he savs. 

 '' But it is most important to note," says Peschel, " that this loose 

 combination of roots is not incorporation, for in the American lan- 

 guages the connected syllables are always curtailed of some sounds." 

 I have here inserted for comparison with the example given by Peschel, 

 the following : — In Mexican a priest may be addressed as — 

 notlazomahuizteopixcatdlzin, a word composed of no (my), tlazontli 

 < esteemed), mahuiztic (revered), teo-pixqui (god-keeper), and tatli 

 (father). 



Gilder^ makes a remark similar ta that of Peschel, that the Eskimo 

 language is agglutinative but not incorporating. This is briefly the 

 distinction between the Eskimo and American Indian tongues. Dr. 

 Latham' was of opinion the passage between the western Eskimo 

 dialects and those of the neighbouring Indian tribes was compara- 

 tively easy ; although Mr. DalP has since stated that the Eskimo 

 tongue does not resemble any of the Indian dialects and has but a 

 very few loan words. Wilhelm Herzog* has tried with some success 

 to establish a connection between the western Eskimo dialects and the 

 Yuma stock of California. As I have pointed out, the number of 

 coincidences between the Eskimo and those aboriginal Indian tribes of 

 the region adjoining their primitive habitat seems evidence of the 

 extent of their relations in the pi-ehistoric past. 



There is a lai'ge amount of material for the pi'osecution of and 

 researches in Eskimo philology, but a good deal of it is yet in manu- 

 script in the Libraries of the Scientitic Institutions of the United 

 States. Mr. J. 0. Pilling, of Washington, has lately published a 

 Bibliography of the Eskimo language, which when all the works 

 enumerated shall have been published, cannot but give a desirable 

 impulse to the study of American philology. The number of MSS. in 

 this list is very large and gives reason for great hopes for the future 

 pi'Ogress of science. Mr. Pilling enumerates some 60 Eskimo com- 

 munities, or tribes, vocabularies of whose dialects have been recorded ; 

 some of them it is true but brief lists, but others like those of Fabri- 



1. Schwatka's Search, lt>81, p. 299. 



2. Man and his Migrations, p. 122-3. 



3. Loc. Cit. 



4. Loc. Cit. 



