Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — The Eskimo. [ARTICLE]

The Eskimo.

Supposably the Eskimos came originally from Asia, though Mr. Dali believes that the stock is American, separated tens of thousands of years ago from the aboriginal Indian. There is, however, we think, a preponderance of arguments, which tend to show that the Innuit is of Aslan origin, for the Behring Strait is narrow', and to-day the natives cross the shallow sea. At no very remote period there might have been a dry-lund connection between the two continents. Physically there is a strong resemblnuce between the Eskimos and the Chinese, so much so that a surgeon who had lived many years In China mistook an Eskimo in a Chinese hospital for a Chinaman. l)r. F. A. Cook, of the Peary expedition, Ims given us the measurements of the Eskimos. The average male is five feet one inch, and the female four feet eight inches, and the first weighs 135 pounds and the other 118. Something which Is curious, in addition to the Mongolian type, is that “the muscular outlines of the body are nearly obliterated, from the fact that they have Immediately beneath the skin a luyer of blubber, or areolar tissue* which protects them from extreme cold.