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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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-gion to the westernmost parts of Alaska,while the seventh includes the Asiaticdivision of the race. The Indians in naming the Esquimauxthe eaters of raw meat spoke not morewisely than modern ethnol- strange config-ogy in calling them the J^SLPeoples of the Shore, or ries-Orarians. This attribute of characterdefines them equally well, for it is thepeculiarity of the race that it confinesitself to the coast lines of the North.The Esquimaux shun the interior. Theirmanner of life limits them to a narrowstrip along the Arctic ocean and otherseas bordering our continents towardthe pole. They hardly wander beyondthis limited range. Even when trade andadventure carry them to short distancesfrom the shore they quickly return to ahabitat which is as natural to them ascertain waters are to certain kinds offishes. The breadth of the coast occu-pied by the race is no more than twentyor thirty miles, and yet this narrowserpentine strip of frozen coast extendsfrom west to east through a distance of
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SCENE IN ESQUIMAU LAND.-Hans Discovering the Vessels of HAYES.-Drawn by A. de Neuville, from a description. 442 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. more than three thousand miles! Cer-tainly the territory of no other divisionof the human raee has so remarkable anextent and configuration. The resources of this long, crookedribbon of Arctic shore are well known.First of all, there are thegifts of the sea—the Arcticfishes that frequent thiscoast, and the seals which are really thegreat resource of the Esquimaux. As to The sea fur-nishes themeans of sub sistence. a supply of these articles the racedepending upon them must coast habitat fi -i- ir i- ii .± determines sub- confine itself to the coast. sistenceandThe prehistoric races of government.Denmark, who left behind them as theevidence of their existence the kitchenmiddens and shell mounds, were notmore limited to the range of a few milesfrom the sea than are the Esquimaux. Several peculiar features of barbarouslife have arisen from the anomalo

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