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INTRODUCTION* 
whole lot has fallen in lefs hofpitable climates. We fpeak 
of the Efquimaux, hitherto only found feated on the coafts 
of Labradore and Hudfon’s Bay, and who differ in feveral 
chara£teriftic marks from the inland inhabitants of North 
America. That the Greenlanders and they agree in every 
circumftance of cuftoms, and manners, and language, which 
are demonftrations of an original identity of nation, had 
been difcovered about twenty years ago *. Mr. Hearne, in 
1771, traced this unhappy race farther back, toward that 
part of the globe from whence they had originally coafted 
along in their fkin boats, having met with fome of them at 
the mouth of the Copper-mine River, in the latitude of 72 0 , 
and near five hundred leagues farther Weft than Pickerf- 
gilTs moft Wefterly ftation in Davis’s Strait. Their being, 
the fame tribe who now actually inhabit the iflands and 
coafts on the Weft fide of North America, oppofite Kamt- 
fchatka, was a difcovery, the completion of which was 
xeferved for Captain Cook. The Reader of the follow¬ 
ing work will find them at Norton Sound; and at Oona- 
lafhka, and Prince William’s Sound; that is, near 150a 
leagues diftant from their ftations in Greenland, and on 
the Labradore coaft. And left fimilitude of manners 
fhould be thought to deceive us, a table exhibiting proofs 
of affinity of language, which was drawn up by Captain 
Cook, and is inferted in this work f, will remove every 
* See Crantz’s Hiftory of Greenland, Vol. i. p. 262 ; where we are told that the 
Moravian Brethren, who, with the confent and furtherance of Sir Hugh Pallifer, then Go¬ 
vernor of Newfoundland, vifited the Efquimaux on the Labradore coaft, found that their 
language, and that of the Greenlanders, do not differ fo much as that of the High and 
Low Dutch. 
f See Appendix, N Q 6. The Greenlanders, as Crantz tells us, call themfelves Ka- 
ralit j a word not very unlike Kanagyji , the name aflumed by the inhabitants of Kodiack, 
®ne of the Schumagin iflands, as Staehlin informs us. 
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