﻿402 KUTCHIN. 



Cook's Inlet, the Ugalakmutsi or Ugalents of King 

 William's Sound, the Atnder of the mouth of the 

 Copper River, the Koltshanen or Galtzanen of the 

 sources of that stream, and the other Kolusch 

 tribes as far as Tchilkat or Lynn's Canal, on the 

 54th parallel and 135th meridian, to those of the 

 Kutchin, I am inclined to consider them as all of 

 the same stock. Captain Cook, from whom we 

 have the earliest accounts of these people, remarks 

 their dissimilarity in person and language to the 

 Wahasli nation who inhabit Vancouver's Island. 



The Kenaiyer and Ugalents are described by Cap- 

 tain Cook* and Baron Wrangell as a moderate-sized 



southern limit of the tribes akin to the Kutchin, but because 

 down to that inlet the language of the Yukon Kutchin seems to 

 be readily comprehended. The travelling merchants who go 

 from thence to the banks of the Pelly and sources of the Yukon 

 meet there with the Tratze-kutcJii or Gens du Fori, by whom 

 they are understood, — as has been mentioned in page 167 of 

 the narrative. Dr. Scouler and others maintain, and probably 

 with justice, that the Kolusch language is spoken as low as 

 Queen Charlotte's Island and Observatory Inlet. 



* " The natives who came to visit us in the Sound were gene- 

 rally not above the common height, thougli many were under 

 it. They were square, or strong chested ; and the most dispro- 

 portioned part of their body seemed to be their heads, which 

 were very large ; with thick short necks ; and large, broad or 

 spreading faces, which upon the whole were flat. Their eyes, 

 though not small, scarcely bore a proportion to the size of their 

 faces ; and their noses had full round points hooked or turned up 

 a,t the tip. Their teeth were broad, white, equal in size, and evenly 

 set. Their hair was black, thick, straight, and strong ^ and their 



