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in the stage of culture. Certainly, as already mentioned, new
emigrants from the interior may then afterwards have joined
these pioneers even in places distant from the culture home,
but the newcomers in doing so have wholly adopted the habits
of the latter and amalgamated with them.
THE POSSIBILITY OF PRESENTLY ARRIVING AT
FURTHER CONCLUSIONS. Having considered the conclusions
which we believe may confidently be drawn concerning the first
settling down of Eskimo inhabitants in the arctic regions, our
next task will be to try what furthermore may be asserted
concerning the same question on probability. We have already
expressed our doubt concerning the opinion, that the
immigrants should have reached the arctic or subarctic regions from
the south along the borders of the sea: We preferred to
assume that they have come from the interior of the continent
following the courses of rivers discharging into the arctic sea
or at least under high northern latitudes. This being granted,
the culture home would have been situated at the mouth of a
river, or of several rivers, and the nearest coast so as to
enable it to receive, during the course of time, settlers from the
interior, while, on the other hand, emigrants successively spread
from this home over the arctic regions. The culture home in
this way would comprise, besides the coastline, the banks of
rivers in the vicinity of their outlets. The change of culture
to which the inhabitants were submitted certainly from a historical
point of view must be called abrupt, but nevertheless have
taken centuries. The population during this period must have
accumulated, and a rich fishery in the rivers seems to afford
the only means of explanation as to how these people can have
gained their sustenance during such a period of transition.
In the former volume an attempt has been made to show
how the dispersion af the first settlers seems to be indicated
by traces still to be observed in the state of the present inhabitants,
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