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upon the Religion, Manners, and Customs of the People; upon 

 their Laws, Money, Weapons, and Punishments; their Manufac- 

 tures and Trade — Remarks upon the Country, its Productions, 

 and Climate— Directions for entering the Port— Historical Sketch 

 of the Kingdom of Loo Choo l-iS 



CHAPTER VL 



Passage from Loo Choo eastward — Arrive at Port Lloyd in the 

 Yfelas del Arzobispo — Description of those Islands — Passage to 

 Kamtchatka — Arrival" at Petropaulski — Notice of that Place — 

 Departure— Pass Beering's Strait — Enter Kotzebue Sound — Pro- 

 secute the Voyage to the Northward Stopped by the Ice — Return 

 to the Southward— Discover Port Clarence and'Grantley Harbour 



Description of these Harbours— Return to Kotzebue Sound — 



Ship strikes upon a Shoal 227 



CHAPTER VIL 



Arrive at Chamisso Island — Find the Barge wrecked — Lieute- 

 nant Belcher's Proceedings — Conduct of the Natives — Approach 

 of Winter— Final Departure from the Polar Sea— Observations 

 upon the Probability of the North-West Passage from the Paci- 

 fic—Remarks upon the Tribe inhabiting the North-West Coast of 

 America — Return to California— Touch at San Bias, Valparaiso, 

 Coquimbo, Rio Janeiro — Conclusion 273 



APPENDIX. 



Fossil Remains 331 



Mexican Bees 357 



Esquimaux Vocabulary 366 



Nautical Remarks 384 



Geographical Positions 341 



Aurora Borealis 345 



Directions to the Binder for inserting the Plates and Charts. 



Californians throwing the Lasso .. to face page 6S 



View of Napa-Kiang (Loo Choo) .. .. 144 



Loo Choo Sepulchre .. .. .. 162 



Natives of Loo Choo . . . . . . 167 



Departure of a Loo Choo Junk with Tribute .. 171 



Kwan-yin (Loo Choo Deity) .. .. .. 194 



Fossil Remains, Plate 1 . . . . . • 334 



Plate 2 . . . . . . 335 



Plate 3 .. .. .. 336 



Section of a Mexican Bee-hive . , . . 357 



