﻿JOURNEYS OF THE KENAIYER. 411 



that the Kenaiyer came originally from the interior, 

 bringing with them their bark canoes, and borrow- 

 ing the skin kaiyaks from the Eskimo Tchugatschih, 

 who are more expert and bolder navigators of the 

 sea. The following notice of the journeys of the 

 Kenaiyer, given by the author above named, will 

 show that they must come occasionally into contact 

 with the dwellers of the Yukon Valley, as they 

 approach its water-shed. The people on the south 

 side of Cook's Inlet hunt mountain sheep in the 

 neighbouring hills. Those that dwell on the north 

 side travel much further. Striking off to the 

 north-east, after seven days of rapid march, or ten 

 of ordinary travelling, in which they can accomplish 

 about one hundred and thirty or one hundred and 

 forty miles, they arrive at the foot of a high moun- 

 tain chain, where, on the banks of Lake Knitiben, 

 the women, children, and less skilful hunters are 

 left. The others cross the mountains in a southerly 

 direction, and in seven days more arrive at Lake 

 Chtuben, on an elevated plateau not far from the 

 source of the Suschitna, and fourteen days' march 

 from the northern arm of Cook's Inlet. 



There they kill rein-deer, which winter in that 

 district in numbers. The Atnaer and Galzanen of 

 Nutatlgat on the Copper River come, after ten 

 days of rapid travelling, to the same lake. From 

 thence the Kenaiyer go six days' march further 



