It has also been suggested that their invocation of the spirits of their dead may be a survival of Asian ancestor worship.
As a general rule the Eskimos are short in stature, as are the Chinese and Japanese, though I could name several men who stand about five feet ten inches.

The women are short and plump.

They all have powerful torsos, but their legs are rather slender.

The muscular development of the men is astonishing, though their fatty roundness hides the differentiation of the muscles.
These people have no written speech, and their language is agglutinative, with complicated prefixes and suffixes, by which they extend a word to a considerable length from the original stem.

The language is relatively easy to acquire, and during my first summer in Greenland I gained a fair knowledge of it.