The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-23

have nearly everywhere remain ed of pure blood. "Innuits," the "Peo-
 pie" who live in plenty where all oth-
 CTS would starve, resisting Sll tempta-
 ton to leave their boulder stfeSn and ice furrowed shores, and who langush
 and die when forcibly removed from
 their bleak headlands and rocks.
 I pass by the ingenious arguments
 which would have us believe that man
 is the result of evolution; or that men
 of different colors were created as un-
 worthy of single thought when we | possess the divinely inspired account
 of the origin of our species, and accept without hesitation the present general belief derived from the conclusions reached after much research, by those who devoted much time to its study that all at least of the northern DOT
 tion of the aboriglnes of North America
 reached this continent by chance from the Aleutian islands, or with intent
 across some part of Behring strait.
 Accepting this belief we may sup
 pose the progenitor of these Eskimo or
 "Skraelings" seen early in the eleventh
 century on the Newfoundland and La
 brador coasts by the Scandinavian dis
 coverers of Greenland to have been one
 of the Mongolian offshoots of the great
 dispersion caused by the confusion of
 tongues, and we must suppose them
 either to have adoptrd their present
 mode of life by being forced to the
 northeastern portion Of Arctic Asia by
 tribes stronger and better armed than
 they, and having acquired the habits
 of fa ta gl, Jo- polar basin, gradually found their way over 5000 miles of Arftic and Atlantic coast line to where first met near the straits of Belle isle, or the (to mel far more probable conjecture that their pro- genitors were the Mongolian tribe or tribes who first peopled America and the great eastern and southward tide of occupation, which, increasing in it's flow southward along the great river valleys and lake basins of the continent left a northern fringe to occupy country not | further south perhaps than the south 1 ern tributaries of the Saskat atchewan or the northern tributaries of the Missouri | and disable remnant to continue to | occupy the Aleutian, islands, and there | learn that which was to preserve their 1 race when they rejoined their compan- ions and were forced northward from these homes to their present habitat; hard pressed by the tribes which. hay ing increased, multiplied, and grown strong in the warmer portions of the continent, began those incessant, in- terminable wars which the discoverers succeeding Columbus found everywhere | along the eastern coast, and later ex- plorers found extending to the heart of | the continent they would naturally seek refuge northward by the rivers of the | Arctic watershed in the bark and wood- | en canoes which are so like, in form at | least, the skin boats which the Russian | navigators, Behring, Spangenberg, and Tschivikin found in use by the then oo- cupants of the Aleutianr islands. We can easily understand, if we accept this theory of the colonization of the Arctic shores of this continent, how the bark and even wood canoe would have to give place to the light skin boat when the northern limit of wood had been reached and passed, and how gladly a hard pressed tribe fleeing for their lives would, if accustomed to the use of boats, seek at once limit where they could not be followed; hence the occu- patton of the Arctic coast as a haven 1f safety and where the arts of the Aleutian islander could be exercised to procure the abundance of food which, till the white man came, filled the each as and storehouses of thet Eskimo near y everywhere along this extended I1 coast line
 If we accept this theory there still the question whether this he- sira took place down one or many riv- ITS flowing into the Arctic sea; and, hough not important, there are reason lble grounds for supposing that it took , ,lace down two at least, or three per i laps, of the Canadian Arctic rivers one, indeed, of the rivers of Alaska would offer some of the facili- les afforded by the others further east.
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