1887] The East Greenlanders. 133 
gio, fasoi longhi, fagiolo e maccarone ;? at Cayenne, pots rubran ;* 
at Barbadoes, Halifax pea;? at Jamaica, asparagus bean ;+ in 
Cochin China, dau dau and tau cos 
(To be continued.) 
THE EAST GREENLANDERS. 
BY JOHN MURDOCH. 
HE veteran authority on the Eskimos, Dr. Rink, has recently 
published an able and interesting paper on this easternmost 
outpost of the great Eskimo race, in which he reviews the 
ethnological results of the late successful Danish expedition to 
East Greenland under Captain Holm, and draws important con- 
clusions as to the original home of the Eskimos, and the probable 
_ course of the wanderings by which they have reached their 
present habitations. 
In his opinion, the metropolis of the Eskimos is probably to 
be found in Alaska, and he finds a confirmation of this view in 
the fact that here the Eskimos are not confined to the coast, but 
spread inland along the rivers. 
It is a fact, however, that the proportion of the Eskimos of 
Alaska who really dwell in the interior is very small indeed, 
being confined to the valleys of the Kuskokwim and the adjoin- 
ing less important rivers, and to the three rivers emptying into 
Kotzebue Sound, while along the rest of the coast from Kadiak 
to Point Barrow they are as purely littoral—or “Orarian,” to 
adapt Mr. Dall’s term—as in Greenland or Labrador. Never- 
theless, this scanty remnant may represent the original condition 
of the race. 
He believes that the migrations of the race can be traced by 
` the development of certain inventions as we pass along the shores 
of the continent from Alaska to Greenland. For instance, the 
kayak, which is probably, as he believes, derived from the open 
z Vilmorin, Les Pl. Pot., 280, 2 Martens, l. c. 3 Schomburgkh, Hist, of Barb. 
4 Macfadyen, Jam., i. 288. 5 Loureiro, 1. c. 
§ Die Ostgrénlander in ihrem Verhältnisse zu den übrigen Eskimostämmen. Von 
H. Rink. Deutsche geographische Blätter, vol. ix. No. 3, 1886, pp. 228-239. 
