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of the River Kuskokwim. The natives have a 

 tradition that the great animals to which the tusks 

 belonged came in old times from the East, but 

 that they were destroyed by a shaman of the 

 River Kwichpak. Some of them, however, say 

 that the herd was merely driven into the earth, 

 and that it comes up in one night of the year. 

 Elsewhere I have alluded to the singularity of no 

 tusks nor fossil bones having been hitherto dis- 

 covered in Rupert's Land, though they abound on 

 the coast of Beering's Sea. 



The various small tribes or communities nearly 

 related to the Kuskuchewak enumerated by Baron 

 Wrangell are inserted in a note at the foot of the 

 page.* Their name for people or men is Td-tchut^ 

 which corresponds in signification with the Eskimo 

 Inu-it; and among the inhabitants of the Aleutian 

 Archipelago, the word is modified into Td-gut and 

 Yagut. The similarity of this term to the national 

 appellation of the Lena Yakuts of Turkish stock is 

 worthy of notice, though it may probably be no 



* Agolegmeuten, Kiyataigmeuten or Kiyaten, Mayimeuten, 

 Agulmeuten, Paschtoligmeuten, Tatchigmeuten, Malimeuten, 

 Anlygmeuten, Tsclinagmeuten, Kuwichpack-meuten, are the 

 designations of the communities most closely allied to the 

 Kuskuchewak by neighbourhood and identity of manners. The 

 Tchugatschen and Kadyaken, the Inkaleuchlenaten and the 

 Inkaliten reside at greater distances to the southward, and have 

 some diversities of customs. 



