458 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap. 



many notices of the Chukches at other places in the same 

 work (i. pp. 267-293 ; ii. pp. 156, 168, &c.). 



Friedrich von LiJTKE in the course of his circumnavigation 

 of the globe in 1826-29, came in contact with the population 

 of the Chukch peninsula, whom he described in detail in 

 Erman's Archiv (iii. pp. 446-464). Here it ought to be noted 

 that, while the population on the North coast consists of true 

 Chukches, the coast population of the region which Liitke visited, 

 the stretch between the Anadyr and Cape Deschnev consists of 

 a tribe, Nmn&llo, which differs from the Chukches, and is 

 nearly allied to the Eskimo on the American side of 

 Behring's Straits, 



The English Franklin Expedition in the Plover, commanded 

 by Captain Mooke, wintered in 1848-49 at Chukotsl^ojnos, and, 

 both at the winter station and in the course of extensive 

 excursions with dogs along the coast and to the interior of the 

 country, came much into contact with the natives. The ob- 

 servations made during the wintering were published in a work 

 of great importance for a knowledge of the tribes in question 

 by Lieutenant W. H, Hooper, Ten Months amo7ig the Tents of 

 the TusJci, London, 1853. 



C. VON DiTTMAR^ travelled in 1853 in the north part of 

 Kamchatka, and there came in contact with the reindeer 

 nomads, especially with the Koryaks. The information he 

 gives us about the Chukches (p. 126) he had obtained from the 

 Nischni-Kolymsk merchant, Trifonov, who had traded with 

 them for twenty-eight years, and had repeatedly travelled in the 

 interior of the country. 



Interesting contributions tO' sa knowledge of the mode of living 

 of the reindeer-Chukches were also collected by Baron G. VON 

 Maydell, who, in 1868 and 1869, along vnih Dr. Carl von 

 Neumann and others, made a journey from Yakutsk by Sredni- 

 Kolymsk and Anjui to Kolyutschin Bay. Unfortunately, with 

 regard to this expedition, I have only had access to some notices 

 in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (vol. 21, 

 London 1877, p. 213), and-Da-s Atisland (1880., p. 861). The 

 projjer sketch of the journey is to be found in Is-vestija, published 

 by the Siberian division of the Russian Geographical Society, 

 parts 1 and 2. 



With reference to the other travellers whose writings are 

 usually quoted as sources for a knowledge of the Chukches, it 

 may be mentioned that Steller and Krascheninnikov only 

 touch in passing on the true Chukches, but instead give very 

 instructive and detailed accounts of the Koryaks, who are as 



^ Uber die Koriuken itnd die ihnen se.hr nalie vervmndten Tschuldschen 

 (Bulletin liistorico-philologique de TAcadeinie de St. Petersbourg, t. xiii., 

 1H56. p. 126.) 



