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birch •'■'. The land animals are foxes of different colours, 

 mice, and weafels ; there are alfo beavers t, fea cats, and 

 fea lions as at Kamtchatka. Among their fifh we may 

 reckon cod, perch, pilchards, fmelts, roach, needle fifli, 

 terpugh, and tchavitcha. The birds are eagles, par- 

 tridges, ducks, teals, urili, ari, and gadi. The ani- 

 mals for whofe Ruffian names I can find no tranflations, 

 are (excepting the Ari) defcribed in Krafliininikoff's Hif- 

 tory of Kamtchatka, or in Steller's relation contained in 

 the fecond volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of 

 Peterlburgh. 



Account of tiie Thc inhabitants of Alaxa, Umnak, Unalakfha, and 



Jnliabitants ot 1 1 > 



inird's! the neighbouring iflands, are of a middle ftature, tawny 

 brown colour, and black hair. In fummer they wear 

 coats (parki t) made of bird fkins, over which, in bad 

 weather, and in their boats, they throw cloaks, called 

 kamli, made of thin whale guts. On their heads they 

 wear wooden caps, ornamented with duck's feathers, 



* All the other journalifls uniformly defcribe Unalaflika as containing 

 nothing but underwood ; we muft therefore fuppofe that the trees here 

 mentioned were very low and fmall, and this agrees with what goes be- 

 fore, " hardly any wood is to be found on it." 



X By beavers the journalifts certainly mean fea-otters, called by the 

 Ruffians fea-beavers. See p. 12. For a defcription of the fea-otter, called 

 by Linnxus Lutra Marina, fee Nov. Com. Petr. vol. II. p. 367, et feq. 



I Parki in Ruffian fignifies a Ihirt, the coats of ihefe iflanders being 

 made like fliirts. 



and 



