Certainly, the instance now before the reader affords a good
illustration of this view of the Esquimaux character. It is Captain
Ommanney's opinion that Kallihirua's tribe may be regarded as a
remnant of the pure race which, no doubt, in ages past migrated from
Asia along the coasts of the Parry Group of Islands and Barrow's
Straits. The features, and formation of skull, bespeak Tartar
extraction. "Their isolated position," he adds, "being far north of
the Danish settlements in Greenland, and far removed from the American
continent, has kept them uncontaminated with any of the various mixed
breeds of which the Esquimaux in those regions must be composed."