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facts regarding the natives now so rapidly disappearing. By learning to 
speak their language, and living among them, his testimony is of special 
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special study, and cautiously DEM (oe p. 154) that “it is 
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xtraneous circumstances. Much is also due, VAR gna to the sim- 
"vius of thought and habit idi. abd obtain among human beings of a 
low type, and who gain their living by similar means. Hence, a general 
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e world, and this M udis can afford no basis for generalizations in 
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regards their dun pu disse “It should be thoroughly and 
xr understood, in the t place, that they are not Indians; nor 
have they any known iA. pa Physically, Proppen, or ETRA 
to the Indian tribes of North America. Their grammar, appea rance, 
habits, and even their anatomy, pM in the form of the skull, sep- 
arate them widely from the Indian race. On the other hand, it is almost 
“the Indians call the Innuit and Eskimo Uskeémi, or sorcerers. Kagus- 
keémi is the Innuit name for the Casines, in which their Shamáns enm 
their superstitious rites. From this root comes the word Eskimo." 
In the chapter on the aboriginal inhabitants of Alaska, he ras by 
dividing the inhabitants into Indians and Orarians, the latter ARTS al 
the tribes of Innuit, Aleuti and Asiatic Eskimo. The author is in 
that the Aleutians originally emigrated to the islands from the American 
continent, driven by hostile tribes. The Innuit formerly extended farther 
south than they do now, and in this connection we find the suggestive 
remark that “ Dr. Otis, of S United States Army Medical Museum at 
Washington, who has handled as many aboriginal American crania 
any northern ethnologist, ied that the skulls found in the northern 
mounds have the same peculiarities which distinguish all Orarian crania, 
and that both are instantly distinguishable from any Indian skulls." 
The chapters on the climate and agricultural capabilities and geology, 
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