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vcries, 22. No communication 

 between that country and Siberia 

 till the reign of Ivan VaflTilievitch 

 II. 17,8. The emprefs aboliflies 

 the monopoly of the fur- trade, 

 and relinquifhes the exclufive pri- 

 vilege of fent-ling caravans to 

 Pekin, 210. 

 Riijpa, a curious and interefting 

 "Hiflorica! Account of the nations 

 which compofe that Empire" 

 lately publithed, 2 18. 

 Ruffians, qui: Siberia after the 

 death of Yermac, 19+. Recover 

 their antient territories in that 

 country, 195. Their progrefs 

 checked by the Chinefe, 196. 

 Are expelled from the Chinefe 

 dominions, 205. Are allowed to 



. build a church (and to have four 

 priells to officiate in it) within 

 their caravanfary at Pekin, 208. 

 Commerce between them and the 

 Chinefe carried on only by barter, 

 232. Method of tranfafling bu- 

 finefs between them, 233. Ruf- 

 fian exports, 234 — 237. Im- 

 ports, 237 — 239. Articles of 

 trade prohibited to individuals, 

 240. Duties paid by the Ruffian 

 merchants, 241. The Ruffians' 

 manner of trading to the Fox 

 Iflands, 264. Their attempts to 

 difcover a North Eaft paffage, 

 304 — 331. Held in great vene- 

 ration by the Kamtchadals, till 

 they quavrelled among them- 

 itlves, 321. See Siberia, Cbinejr, 

 Albtifin, Lena. 



Snbya, an ifland at a diflance from 

 Att, 30. See Att, 



Sacred Helmet, at Maimatfchin, 227. 



Saetfhie Kamen, or Hare's Rock, 

 Defcription of, 328. 



SagcHgamak, one of the Fox Iflands, 



'57- 



St. Feterfiiirg, the geographical ca- 

 lendar of not tobedepended on, 24. 



Saktunak, an ifland near Alakfu, 1 19. 



Sandchite,-7i northern province of 

 China, 23 1. 



Sea-horfe teeth, their value, 1 6. 



Sea-lion, or Scivutiba, its Hclli deli- 

 cate food, 265. 



Sea-otters, Many writers miftaken 

 concerning them, 12. Defcription 

 of, ibid. Value c>f their fkins, 13, 



5?//'k, a to-ivn of Little ffucharia, 333. 



Seiebranikof, voyage of a velTel 

 fitted out by him, 49 — 52. Ship- 

 wrecked on an iiland oppolite 

 . Katyrskoi Nofs, in the peninfula 

 of Kanuchatk;*, 50, Defcription 

 of the ifland, 51. 



Sbaffyrin (Sila), a CoiTac, colleaor 

 of the tribute,40. 45. 61. killed, 



63- 



Shalaurojf, his firft voyage from the 

 Lena, 323 — 328. Winter^ at a 

 mouth of the Kovyma, 325. 

 Not being able to double She- 

 letskoi Nofs, rettn-ns to the Ko- 

 vyma, winters there a fecond 

 time, and returns to the Lena, 

 327. No account of his fecond 

 expedition, he and his crew be- 

 ing killed by the Tfchutski, 328. 



Sheep's Rock. See Baranei Kamen, 



Shelatskoi Nofs, w^hence that name is 

 derived, 526. 



She?niya, one of the Aleutian Iflands, 

 78; 



Shilk'in {Ivan), his voyage, 45. 

 Wrecked on one of the Fox 

 Iflands, 58. where the Ruffians 

 are attacked by the fav.iges, 

 •whom they repuife, 59. After 

 fuffering thegreaceltdiftrefs, they 



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