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concerned there has been no deviation from the East Eskimo 

 consonant-system before reaching this point (accordingly also 

 at Pt. Barrow) and then it is also less probable that the dialect 

 described by Barnum lacks this sound in so high a degree as 

 his manner of designating the sounds would lead us to suppose. 



The map. 



1) The Eskimo living farthest south on the west coast 

 of America are — according to W. H. Dall (Tribes of the 

 Extreme Northwest) — JJgalakmut (-mint?) , who also inhabit 

 the island Kayah. On this side of America too they must have 

 lived farther south in earlier times, as far down as Stikine 

 River or even still farther south, as is evident from the kitchen- 

 middens that have been found there (between 56 — 57° N. lat.). 



2) Dall's and Nelson's maps have the ending -mut in 

 the names of the tribes, while the suffix with this signification 

 otherwise generally has the form -miut. That the latter form 

 is present in the Alaska language too is confirmed both by 

 Ray and by Barnum (Gr. § 102). Is it not possible that the 

 other spelling is to be explained by the fact that the maps have 

 been compiled after Russian maps where the letter ю is used 

 for i u ? 



3) News has just been received from "The Danish Literary 

 Greenland Expedition" that they have traversed the district 

 around Melville Bay and that everywhere along the coast 

 they have found old ruins of Eskimo houses, which testifies 

 to the correctness of my hypothesis as to Ihe West Green- 

 landers* emigration to South Greenland from the north. 



