43).

I attach no importance to this statement, and only mention it to connect it with some other curious notices of the tribe now extinct who occupied that locality.

Both De Ayllon and Lawson mention their very light complexions, and the latter saw many with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a fair skin; they cultivated when first visited the potato (or the groundnut), tobacco, and cotton (Humboldt); they reckoned time by disks of wood divided into sixty segments (Lederer); and just in this latitude the most careful determination fixes the mysterious White-man's-land, or Great Ireland of the Icelandic Sagas (see the _American Hist.

Mag._, ix.

p.
364), where the Scandinavian sea rovers in the eleventh century found men of their own color, clothed in long woven garments, and not less civilized than themselves.
[23-1] The name Eskimo is from the Algonkin word _Eskimantick_, eaters of raw flesh.