Note 30 — Chapter II
Reading edition
This word was popularly written Esquimaux, after the French. Then the Bureau of Ethnology wrote it Eskimo, and this has been the accepted spelling and pronunciation. But it is from the Abnaki dialect of Algonquin, according to Brinton (The American Race, p. 59), and is properly Eskimwhan. This is better represented by Eskimä than by Eskimo.