ALASKA. 227 



Kolcsliiiois 5, 000 



Copper liiver ^ 300 



Clioogach ic 471 



Peninsula 1 , 000 



Kodials — 1, 508 



KosKoqnim 7, 000 



Yukon liiver not known 



Kussiaus , 70G 



Oogahlensic, (Mount Saint Elias, near) 150 



Kolchans, (interior) not known 



Kcnai - 1, G2S 



Aglahmutes 402 



Ou)ialashl-a Aleuts 1, 497 



Atlca Aleuts 750 



Mahlenmtes, &c . . , not known 



Creoles 1, 295 



Total actually known 22, 800 



Estimate of the rest' 17, 000 



Making- a total, for the Territory, of some 40, 000 



Tlie following is a list of the different tribes of Indians living 

 between Prince of Wales Island and Yalikutat, or Bering's 

 Bay, Alaska, in 1837-'3S, (from Veniaminov, part III :) 



" The numbers of these people (Indians) living in Eussian 

 . America between Prince of "Wales and Bering's Bay in 1835 

 was 10,000, but now (1838) not much over 6,000. The settle- 

 ments, and people in them, number as follows: 



Souls. 



Yahkutatskie, (Bering's Bay) 150 



Abkvaystkie, (Lituya Bay) 200 



Laydanoprodevskie - -50 



Chelkatskie (Chilcats) , ^ 200 



Ahkootskie v 100 



Seethenskie, (iSitka) 750 



Kootsuovskie, (Hootsino) ^^^0 



Kaykovskie, (Cakes) -00 



Koonjeskie ^ «>0 



Gaynoovskie 300 



at the same time his taleuts and attainments are such as to bo worthy of 

 his exalted station. With all this, the bishop is sullieiently a man of the 

 world to disdain anything like cant. His conversation, on the contrary, 

 teems with amusement and instruction, and his company is much prized by 

 all who have the honor of his acquaiutauce." 



