3. The earliest language with which the Ugalyatmutsi was compared were Esquimaux, and the contrast was insisted upon from the first.
It is only when we apply what may be called the indirect method that the true value of the Esquimaux group becomes recognised.
1. Each has affinities with the Athabascan tongues, and perhaps equal affinities.
2. Each has affinities with the Oregon languages, and each perhaps equally.
3. Each has definite affinities with the languages of New California, and each perhaps equal ones.
4. Each has miscellaneous affinities with all the other tongues both of North and South America.
These facts that connect the Esquimaux languages with those spoken to the south of them involve, as may be easily seen, a theory of much higher importance than the position of groups like the Kolooch. They are taken along with the geographical position of the Esquimaux race in respect to Asia, and point to the parts in question as the starting-points for the population of the New World. Upon this latter I can only say at present, that I find Esquimaux words in the following languages:—
1. The Koriack.
2. The Kamskadale.