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Eskimo is a corruption of Eskimantsik, a northern Algonkin word meaning "eaters of raw flesh". Although their geographical range extends over a distance of about three thousand five hundred miles from north-easternmost Asia to the east coast of Greenland the difference in their dialects is little more than that between French and Italian; whereas the difference between the speech of one Amerindian tribe and another even where they belong to the same language group is very great not less than that between German and Latin, or English and French, or even between Russian and Hindustani.
These were probably the ancestors of the present Eskimaux, who are the same people with the Greenlanders, and are called Eskimantsik in the language of the Abenaki, on account of their eating raw fish; in the same manner as the Russians, in their official state papers, call the Samojeds Sirojed'zi, because they also eat raw and frozen fish and flesh.
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