INDEX. 



Agricultitee iu Liu -km, 51, 257 ; in 



Petropaulovsky, 77; on Kamschatka 



River, 174. 

 Alaska Commercial Company, 206. 

 Alcedo hcngalensis, 44. 

 Allied Forces defeated at Petropaulovsky, 



78. 

 Altars in Liu-kiu, 41. 

 Americans at Js'aplia-kiang, 32. 

 Anadyrsk, first fort built at, 235. 

 Annexation of Liu-kiu, 52, 273. 

 Aralia pairyrifera, 24. 

 Architecture, Liu-kiuan, 50, 55, 57. 

 Atlasov invades Kamschatka, 236 ; defeats 



Kamschatdales, 237 ; is murdered, 238. 

 Auk, Tufted, 71. 

 Avatcha Bay, 67, 68. 

 Avatchinska volcano, 68. 

 Avicula macroptey'on, 63. 



Balagans, 106. 



Bamboo in Formosa, 12. 



Battle of Petropaulovsky, 79. 



Bears, 102, 111, 132, 159 ; catching fish, 

 133. 



Bering, 240 ; explores Siberia, ihid.; builds 

 the Gahricl, 241 ; discovers Bering's 

 Straits, ibid.; second voyage, 242 ; last 

 voyage, 245 ; is attacked with scurvj^ 

 246 ; discovers Bering Island, 248 ; dies, 

 249 ; monument to, 78. 



Bering Island, 187 ; features of, 193. 



Bering's Straits, existence conjectured, 

 239. 



Betchevinskaya Baj-, 211, 216. 

 Bettelheim's, Dr., Mission to Liu-kiu, 264. 

 Bidarrahs, 191. 

 Bighorn, 100, 109, 211 ; description of, 



213 ; resemblance to 0. montana, 214 ; 



^leasurements, 215. 

 Birch-tree, uses of, 101 ; great size of, 



93. 

 Birds in Liu-kiu, paucity of, 60 ; of Kams- 

 chatka, 112, 121, 159, 274. 

 Boats, of Bering islanders, 191 ; of Kurile 



islanders, 224, 225. 

 Bolcheresk established, 238. 

 Bolcheresk River, 104 ; valley of the, 



114. 

 Bows and arrows used to shoot sea-otter, 



225. 

 Brick-tea, 141. 

 Bridges in Liu-kiu, 50. 

 Brunton, Mr., on population of Okinawa- 



sima, 257. 

 Burial customs, Liu-kiuan, 39. 



CALLORniNus uRsixrs, 190, 195, ct seq. ; 

 arrival at Bering Island, 191, 197 ; the 

 male, 199 ; the female, 200 ; departure 

 from Bering Island, 202 ; killing, 203 ; 

 annual take of skins, 204 ; curing, ihid. ; 

 profit on skins, 206. 



Camphor, 19, 23. 



Canoes, dug-out, in Liu-kiu, 41 ; in Kams- 

 chatka, 135. 



Cape Klin, 210. 



Cape Shipunsky, 209. 



Capercailzie, 103, 121. 



