862 The Northernmost Inhabitants of the Earth. (September, 
of our planet. Like most other tribes of Eskimos, they call 
themselves Inuit, or men, not being familiar with the expression — 
Eskimo. 
This name was first given, as it seems, to the Inuit of Labrador _ 
by the Nascopi Indians and by other families of the Algonkins. 
In the language of the Abnaki, for instance, es#i-m coha* means he 
raw eats it; and according to the “ Dictionnaire et grammaire de : 
la langue des Cris,” by A. Lacombe, aski = cru and mowew=il 
le mange; askimowew would therefore signify raw he eats it. In 
his valuable paper “On Algonkin names for man,” published in . 
the Transactions of the American Philological Association for 
1871, Mr. J. H. Trumbull informs us that the Algonkins of New 
England were in the habit of calling the Mohawk tribe of the 
Iroquois Mohowang-suck or Manquén-og, namely, cannibals Ke 
man-eaters. For moho means to eat and moowhan, according to l 
Eliot’s Bible, he eats what lives. The formation of the word 
Esquimantsic, which is found in most text-books on ethnology, 
is probably erroneous. Í 
It is Captain John Ross to whom we owe the first intelligence l 
of these remote people. In the narrative of his exploring E 
up Baffin bay, during the year 1818, he makes mention of = 
as “ Arctic highlanders,” a name which should hardly wae ' 
ted, since these Eskimos invariably inhabit the coast. Ross had 
his companions were evidently the first strangers these people nao i 
beheld. The two men-of-war they considered to be paa I 
sters with wings, while they thought that the sailors themsew® — 
Squadron, wintered in their vicinity in Wolstenholme $0 po ] 
the remaining vessels of the fleet now and then came 10 ba | 
with these Eskimos. Kane was the first to remain pei pe 
for any length of time, as Hayes did later. Since then í i ate 3 
met occasionally by English whalers who, on their wee x4 
caster sound, stopped at the fast ice of the coast 1n the v i 
Cape York while waiting for open water. . 
