The Nome nugget., 1902-02-26
PACIFIC
 RACES America and Asia Once an Immense Continent.
OnsGla OF ESKIMO
Interesting and Original Theories Advanced By Captain Conrad Siem North.
tCopyright, 1902, by J. r. A. Strong)

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 The study of the original races and tribes of the Pacific is d theme winch has been sady neglected. In isolated cases ard disconnected instances it has been taken hold of by many amateur searcherS. who have stud .OuSly lO, ktd into the morals and languages. lores and myl hology of one tribe or another, and who have at tines iaboriouS!N gathered and stored up ma ter al and broa i-minded organizer. the thinker, who would grasp these threa Is and all of this avai able material and 'c0mhne it into logical whole ha, not come forward. 1t is one of the graudest themes in the world, practically still virgin soil and can in many in~iunces a. yet today be gathered and studied from riginal sources Millions of dollars are spent every year by Amer can universities in historical re- searches in the s0-called old world, in bSN PLOi'S. ollu III u IS Nt' vol III -d- lions of the [lad and the Odyssey. Sui ficient has been found to prove that HoIaer left us u true and grand picture of his time. The Nlbelungen Li, q, the Iceland sa4as and the north ern runes, the monuments and pyra mids of the Germanic races, are telling to the student the story of the past Oi Nort hern Europe Max N uller with his cumpara i've study of the fang gu&ge- hH> p'ovpn the origin of the Aryun r.t, p- and the Stuy Ot Sanskrit is verifying lhe I"gical deductions of lhi> or. .,t Lhluker. There is a large new G.ll for 4 Max Muller on these Pacific shores. There is buunti uI, tn gathered and unOrganized mater.al for a greater lliad and more Splenlid Odyssey amongst the aboriginal races of this world new to science. The mythology and the traditions of al the many different tribes should be gath cred and compared. This wise common origins and absolutely true and histor- ical facts could be established. The relal ionshIp between he Japane>e and the F m), m tn, r)lJeci or Aztecs may. perhaps, be proven by compre- .hensive and synthetic study of the races surviving today.
 There is no doubt in my mind. that at period which by the leologist would be caller very recent, he great continents of America and Asia were immediately connected at their nOrl h. sern, extremities and in fact formed one immense continent. Traditions amocg the EskimOs speaks vaguely of q time when there was land freely travelled over by men and beasts where the Boring Sea is washing t, day. The catastrophe of vest 9rday is the super stition.ef the morrow, and the myth their origin always points to an ur- 'heaval, tells of fire-spitting mountains Of an overwhelming flo d and of men brought on shore by seals or whales. The same convnlsion, perhaps, which formed the Cal al,fOrnia coast anl threw .up the Ale eitlan ant kurile 1 Hands inundated the rolling low lands thai formed once the connecting link be- tween America and Asia and made two continents out of one. Many different kinds of proofs may be brought to make nb thanr,. nhzn1,t n fo,
 North of the Pribyloff group he Bering Sea is very shallow, as a rule less than 30 fathoms of waterare found. The soundings are nearly uniform, bat ,alour certain lines we find old channels which wind along like old ,one-lme river beds. Occasional shoals and islands are the hills and mountains of former days. and busin-like areas where a little deeper water is found must have been large ,akes into which mighty rivers like the Yukon or Anadir emp tied their large volumes of water be- fore the total submersion of all the land underlying the Berng Sea of today. Dredging the sea bottom and penetrating below the recently lepos- tied Slt might reveal in places a sub strata wli~h would go far towards prov ns our contention and the digging and Gelyins for the yellow III, tai in the tundra srme day may expose siratas, and furnish ndications, to the geologist from which he nay be able to accur- ately determine he prehistoric con 4ditions of the large area that iS covered by, and to approximately learn the age of the Boring Sea.
 The fauna of Northern Asia is right .through the same as that of Northern