Note 684 — Chapter II

E. Beauvois’ Les Skroelings, Ancêtres des Esquimaux (Paris, 1879); B. F. DeCosta in Pop. Science Monthly, Nov., 1884; A. S. Packard on their former range southward, in the American Naturalist, xix. 471, 553, and his paper on the Eskimos of Labrador, in Appleton’s Journal, Dec. 9, 1871 (reprinted in Beach’s Indian Miscellany, Albany, 1877). Humboldt holds them to have been driven across America to Europe (Views of Nature, Bohn’s ed., 123). Ethnologists are not wholly agreed as to the course of their migrations. The material for the ethnological study of the Eskimos must be looked for in the narratives of the Arctic voyagers, like Scoresby, Parry, Ross, O’Reilly, Kane, C. F. Hall, and the rest; in the accounts by the missionaries like Egede, Crantz, and others; by students of ethnology, like Lubbock (Prehist. Times, ch. 14); Prichard (Researches, v. 367); Waitz (Amerikaner, i. 300); the Abbé Morillot (Mythologie et légendes des Esquimaux du Groenland in the Actes de la Soc. Philologique (Paris, 1875), vol. iv.); Morgan (Systems of Consanguinity, 267), who excludes them from his Ganowanian family; Irving C. Rosse on the northern inhabitants (Journal Amer. Geog. Soc., 1883, p. 163); Ludwig Kumlien in his Contributions to the natural history of Arctic America, made in connection with the Howgate polar expedition, 1877-78, in Bull. of the U. S. Naval Museum (Washington, 1879), no. 15; and his paper in the Smithsonian Report (1878). There are several helpful papers in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute (London), vol. i., by Richard King, on their intellectual character; vol. iv. by P. C. Sutherland; vol. vii. by John Rae on their migrations, and W. H. Flower on their skulls; vol. ix. by W. J. Sollars on their bone implements. For other references see Bancroft, Native Races, i. 41, 138; Poole’s Index, p. 424, and Supplement, p. 146.