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CI ^ P - two pieces of wood, placed together, and motioning 

 v— ~,-^ with their hands that they were paddling. They 



1826? 1 ' then drew them along till they came to the channel, 

 when they were obliged to follow one another, and, 

 when through, they took up their position, as be- 

 fore. The river was between this harbour and the 

 cape, and by their description it wound among lofty 

 mountains, and between high rocky cliffs, and ex- 

 tended further than any of the party had been able 

 to trace in their baidars. Its name was Youp-nut, 

 and its course must lie between the ranges of moun- 

 tains at the back of Cape Prince of Wales. At this 

 last mentioned cape, they placed a village, called 

 Iden-noo ; and a little way inland another, named 

 King-a-ghee, which was their own winter residence. 

 Beyond Imau-rook there was a bay, of which we 

 have no knowledge, named I-art-so-rook. A point 

 beyond this, which I took to be the entrance to 

 Norton Sound, was the extent of their geographi- 

 cal knowledge in that direction. 



To the Diomede Islands they gave the names of 

 Noo-nar-boak, Ignarlook, and Oo-ghe-eyak ; King's 

 Island, Oo-ghe-a-book ; and Sledge Island, Ayak. 

 It is singular that this island, which was named 

 Sledge Island by Captain Cook, from the circum- 

 stance of one of these implements being found upon 

 it, should be called by a word signifying the same 

 thing in the Esquimaux language. For East Cape 

 they had no name, and they had no knowledge of 

 any other part of the Asiatic coast. Neither Schis- 

 mareff Bay nor the inlet in the Bay of Good Hope 

 was delineated by them, though they were not ig- 

 norant of the former when it was pointed out to 

 them. It has been supposed that these two inlets 



