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which reindeer horns were found set up. Along with the 

 reindeer horns there was found the coronal bone of an elk with 

 portions of the horns still attached. Beside the other bones lay 

 innumerable temple-bones of the seal, for the most part fresh 

 and not lichen-covered. Other seal bones were almost com- 

 pletely absent, which shows that temple-bones were not remains 

 of weathered seal skulls, but had been gathered to the place for 

 one reason or another in recent times. No portions of human 

 skeletons were found in the neighbourhood. These places are 

 sacrificial places, which the one race has inherited from the 

 other. 



Weangel gives the following account of the tribe which lived 

 here in former times : — 



" As is well known the sea-coast at Anadyr Bay is inhabited 

 by a race of men, who, by their bodily formation, dress, 

 language, -differ manifestly from the Chukches, and call 

 themselves Onkilon - seafolk. In the account of Captain 

 Billing's journey through the country of the Chukches, 

 he shows the near relationship the language of this coast 

 tribe has to that of the Aleutians at Kadyak, who are of 

 the same primitive stem as the Greenlanders. Tradition 

 relates that upwards of two hundred years ago these Onkilon 

 occupied the whole of the Chukch coast, from Cape Chelagskoj 

 to Behring's Straits, and indeed we still find along the whole of 

 this stretch remains of their earth huts, which must have been very 

 unlike the present dwellings of the Chukches ; they have the 

 form of small mounds, are half sunk in the ground and closed 

 above with whale ribs, which are covered with a thick layer of 

 earth. A violent quarrel between Kriichoj, the chief of these 

 North-Asiatic Eskimo, and an crrim or chief of the reindeer 

 Chukches, broke out into open feud. Krachoj drew the shorter 

 straw, and found himself compelled to fly, and leave the country 

 with his people ; since then the whole coast has been desolate 

 and uninhabited. Of the emigration of these Onkilon, the 

 inhabitants of the village Irkaipij, where Krachoj apjiears to 

 liave lived, narrated the following story. He had killed a Chukch 

 crrim, and was therefore eagerly pursued by the son of the 

 murdered man, whose pursuit he for a considerable time escaped. 

 Finally Krachoj believed that he had found a secure asylum 

 on the rock at Irkaipij, where he fortified himself behind a sort 

 of natural wall, which can still be seen. But the young Chukch 

 crrim, driven by desire to avenge his father's death, finds means 

 to make his way within the fortification and kills Krachoj's son. 

 Although the blood-revenge was now probably comjalete according 

 to the prevailing ideas, Krachoj must have feared a further 

 pursuit by his unrelenting enemy, for during night he lowers 



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