. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. n ft 1 ( 898 KEPOUT—1884. Section H.—ANTHROPOLOGY. Pkesidknt of thk Si:riiox- K. B. , , , [For Dr. Tyler's Address, soc next page.] 7/i(/jfsn.\ y, A rousT 28. The following I'apers wore road:— 1. The TlLHtije of fJie Eskiinti in Space and Time. By Protessor W. BovD , The Eskimos occiiiiy the coldest parts of the earth in Amoricfi an
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. n ft 1 ( 898 KEPOUT—1884. Section H.—ANTHROPOLOGY. Pkesidknt of thk Si:riiox- K. B. , , , [For Dr. Tyler's Address, soc next page.] 7/i(/jfsn.\ y, A rousT 28. The following I'apers wore road:— 1. The TlLHtije of fJie Eskiinti in Space and Time. By Protessor W. BovD , The Eskimos occiiiiy the coldest parts of the earth in Amoricfi and Asia, aiiil their civilisation is of a rude and priniitiv(> type. To the south of the I'',skiuios in America is a dehatable land, Ijelonnrliifr neither to theoi nor to the lied Indian, l)etween which races a feud exists. In Asia the l^skimos are on better terms ,i thjir neighbours. It has been asserted that the Kskhnos are related to tli" It^l Indian on the ground of their language being agglutinative, but tliis is Imrdly sufficient proof. There are very contlicting opinions as to when they iirsl appeared in America, Mr. Markham considers tlioy were driven from Asia shortly ljefi)re 1319 by the pressure of Tartar tribes. On the oth(>r hand, Dr. Itink considers them the last wave of migration hy ^shi(•h the American C(jntinent was originally peopled. It is probable that in ancient times they ranged much further south, ami havt only lately been driven further north. I'urtliermore, if we trust to the accounts of the Scandinavians who vi-ited America in the eleventh century, they must have had a much lower rang", and this is supported by other facts. Thus the Eskimos are a retreating race, the remnant of the ancient ])Ossessors of a very wide area, who would have been exterminated but for the inclemeiicy of the nortli, which has kept back the Ued Indian. The I^skimo word ' Kavak," a * skin-covereil canoe,' meaning probably a ' birch-covereil cano
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