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civilization, and for the origin of this remarkable people. Never- 
theless some writers believe that the barren land west of Hudson 
bay, where a primitive Eskimo group still lingers, was the original 
home of the entire people, and that somewhere along the Arctic 
shores of Canada we may yet find traces of that transitional stage 
when it first arlapted itself to life on the seacoast.^ 
1 Steensby, H. P. : “An AnthropoE:eographir:il Study of the Origin of the Eskimo Culture" ; Med- 
delelser orn Gr0nlaiKl, vol. .53, pp. 39-228 fK0beiiliavn. 1917). 
