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of reaching the North Pole. 311 
home of the race. Erasmus Yorke spoke of his mother having 
come from the north, and when Sacheuse told the inhabitants of 
Prince Regent’s Inlet that he came from the south, they replied 
that it was impossible, since in that direction there was nothing 
but ice. Egede and Crantz both assign to the Esquimaux a 
northern origin, and the inhabitants of Smith’s Strait have re- 
peatedly told me of the day when their forefathers used to hunt 
the reindeer and the musk ox—the Oomeak— 
destruction of the hunting grounds by the gradual enlargement 
of the great Humboldt Glacier, and the enormous discharge of 
tes. 
known branch of the family is that with which Dr. Kane had 
constant communication, at the mouth of Smith's Strait, and 
tu 
Same peo | same characteristics. 
na So = Mager aoe assured me aan the oe — 
Pond’s Bay are far superior in physical development to the mm 
have found the height five feet four inches (6 feet 4 inches) very 
