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IV. Ainu, in the Hokkaido of Japan and the southern part of Sakhalin Island. Accordinc^ to Staiifords Coni- pendiinn their number is 3000, but according to Patkanoff
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V. Gilyaks, near the mouth of the Amur and in the northern part of Sakhalin Island. According to Stanford's Coinpcjiditiin their number is 5000, but according to Pat- kanoff 4649.
VI. Eskimo, on the Asiatic shore of Behring Strait (as well as the Arctic region from Greenland to Alaska). According to Stanfords Compciuiiniu they number in Asia 500, but according to Patkanoff 83 1.^^
VII. Aleuts, in the' Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Accord- ing to Patkanoff they number 574.
VIII. Yukaghirs, between the lower Jana and lower Kolyma Rivers, north-eastern Siberia. According to Stan- fords Compendium they number 1600, but according to
Patkanoff 754.
IX. Chuwanzes, south of Chuan Bay, at the upper and middle Anadyr, northern Siberia. According to Patkanoff they number 453.
X. The Ostiaks of Yenisei, between the Lower Tunguska and the Stony Tunguska, tributaries of the middle Yenisei. According to Patkanoff they number 988.-^
-*The Eskimo on the American and Asiatic shores together number about 25,000 (Patkanoff, op. at., p. 129). Jochelson, Etnologicheskia problerny na Sieiuiernyh Bieregah Tihavo Okeana, 1908, however, does not include this tribe among the Palaeo- Asiatics, and says that they form a wedge among them. But, as our classification is a geographical one, we shall include them among Palaeo-Siberians.
-^The Ostiaks of Yenisei form, according to Patkanoff {op. cil., p. 106), the western or Yenisei branch of the Palaeo-Asiatics, and are the remains of a former (seventeenth and eighteenth century) large group composed of Arines, Kotts, Assans, etc. As the result of a communication from Dr. L. Sternberg of Petersburg, who does not consider these people Palaeo-Asiatics, I prefer to adopt the above classification of the Ostiaks of Yenisei only with some reserve ; still, as our classification is geographical, we can call them Palaeo-Siberians.
