. Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda .. . leoutologically speaking,as Agassiz tells us, tiune appearsto be some reason for looking to it as the spot where early traces of the human race are to be found,and the fa(;t would seem to warrant further study and investigation in connection with the indigenouspeople of our continent, thereby awakening new sources of inquiry among ethnologists. LING riHTIC IECl LI A R ITIKfy the study of vocal)ularies. It is alleged that linguistic aOinities exist betweensome of the tribes of the Am
. Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic ocean in 1881 ... Notes and memoranda .. . leoutologically speaking,as Agassiz tells us, tiune appearsto be some reason for looking to it as the spot where early traces of the human race are to be found,and the fa(;t would seem to warrant further study and investigation in connection with the indigenouspeople of our continent, thereby awakening new sources of inquiry among ethnologists. LING riHTIC IECl LI A R ITIKfy the study of vocal)ularies. It is alleged that linguistic aOinities exist betweensome of the tribes of the American coast and our Oriental neighbors across the Pacific. Mr. Brooks, Baleen FKiNoii. (75 di:iineters.). ^ Rkindeeu IIaik. (75 diameters.) Heliotype Printing Co., Boston. CRUISE OF STEAMER CORWIN IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN. 31 whom 1 have already quoted, reports that in March, 1860, he took an Indian boy on board theJapanese steam-corvette Kanrin-maru, where a comparison of Coast-Indian and pure Japanese wasmade at his request by Funkuzawa Ukitchy, then admirals secretary; the result of which heprepared for the press and published with a view to suggest further linguistic says that quite an infusion of Japanese words is found among some of the Coast tribes of Oregonand CaUfornia, either pure or clipped, along with some very peculiar Japanese idioms, construc-tions, honoritic, separative, and agglutinative particles; that shipwrecked Japanese are invariablyenabled to communicate understandingly with the Coast Indians, although speaking quite a difterentlanguage, and that many shipwrecked Japanese have iuformed him that they were enabled tocommunicate with and understand the nati
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