This is the proper place for noticing an element in the traditions, or rather in the mythology, of the Eskimo of these parts. All or most of them agree in deriving their origin from one or two animals--the _raven_ or _dog_. Now the Tshugatsi take their descent from the _dog_. The name _Tshugatsi_ is so like that of the northern Koriaks (Tshuktshi) that it is unlikely that both are native. In which quarter it is applied correctly, is a point that some future investigator must decide. _The Kuskokwim._--Locality from Cape Rodney to the Peninsula of Aliaska. Numbers, according to Baer, about 7,000. Such is the direction of the Eskimos of the Asiatic side of America. It is, however, inconvenient to say that they form the _eastern_ branch of the stock, because, when we begin with the Atlantic side of America, we find that they become _western_; indeed, they are either one or the other, according to the point from which we begin to describe them. We now take the other extremity of the Eskimo area, which is the southernmost point of Greenland, Cape Farewell, within a few days' sail of the European island of Iceland. Doing this, we move from east to west, and determine where the two divisions meet. _Greenlanders._--The language of the natives of Greenland, and those of the coast of Labrador, is mutually intelligible; the similarity in physical appearances and in manners being equally close. _Proper Eskimo._--These are the inhabitants of the shores of Hudson's Bay, and the coast of Labrador. Their dialect is understood at least as far as the Mackenzie-river, in 137° W. L.; where Captain Franklin's interpreter, who came from Hudson's Bay, found no difficulty in being understood by the natives of the parts last mentioned. About three degrees westward, however, the Eskimo of Greenland and Labrador comes _to be understood with difficulty at first_. Here, then, it is, where the two divisions of the Eskimo dialects meet. THE KOLÚCH.