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they have been here no one can say. The continent seems to have 
been uninhabited during the Glacial period, but the first immigrants 
may have arrived as far back as fifteen or twenty thousand years ago. 
The latest immigrants were perhaps the Eskimo, who may have 
entered America not many centuries before the Christian era. At the 
end of the first millenium A.D. a few small parties of Malayo-Poly- 
nesians may possibly have landed somewhere on the Pacific coast 
between California and Peru, but it seems highly improbable that 
they could have influenced in any way the aboriginal tribes of the 
Dominion. 
