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The Cape York Eskimos.
- o I
Before giving an account of the incidents connected
with the finding and bringing home of the Cape York aerolites,
a few words regarding the strange people with whose history these
aerolites have been so intimately associated cannot fail to be of
interest.
Denisons of a little arctis oasis, prisoned on the east
by the savage white slopes and superstitious terrors of the Ser
miksoah or Great Ice; on the west by the waves of Smith Sound; on
the north by the crystal ramparts of the Humboldt glacier; and on
the south by the stretching miles of the unknown glacier faces of
Melville Bay; they number in all but a few more than two hundred
souls and are at once the smallest, the most northerly and most
unique tribe of human beings upon the earth. Very possibly also
they are the oldest tribe of men upon the western hemisphere.
Many of them of strikingly!Mongolian type of countenance;
all of them possessing in a marked degree the oriental character
istics of mimicry, ingenuity and patience in mechanical duplication;
there seems to be a strong presumption in favor of the theory of
Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society that
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