174 THE FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



HUMPBACK WHALE (English). Megaptera versabilis. 



KALOG (Aleutian). All the small cottoid fishes. 



KAMLAIKA (Russian). The water-proof shirt. 



KAMMIN (Russian). Stone. 



KASIMINISTA (Russian). Rocky place. 



KANOOSKA'(Russiau). See Canooskie, antea. "Little captain.'- 



KAPOOSTAH (Russian). All alga3. Sea- weeds; from " morskie kapoosta", a "sea-cabbage". 



KAUTICK, pi. KAUTICKIE (Russian). Fur-seal, collectively. 



KEETAVIE (Russian). Whale place. 



KENCH (English). Bin in the salt-house for pickling fur-seal skins. 



KESHLA (Russian.) Sour; rotting. 



KIBITSCHA (Russian). The common four-wheeled carriage of Russia. 



KILLER- WHALE (English). Orca glaaiator, var. rectipinnis. 



KOLITSKJE (Russian). Tringa ptilocnemis, and all waders on the i- lands. 



KOTICK, pi. KOTICKIE (Russian). Young fur-seal. 



KVASS, or QUASS (Russian). Native home-brewed beer; vile product of flour, dried apples, sugar, and water, 



fermented in a cask for a certain period; also called " mahkoolah ", after a Russian brewer. 

 LAABAS (Russian). Drying or hanging frame for meat and fish. 

 LAAPKA (Russian). Storehouse, or store. 



LAASBUSTCHIE (Russian). Breeding-grounds (literally, " a place where seals dry off"). 

 LIMMERSHIN (Aleutian). Anorthura troglodytes; wren. (A "chew of tobacco"). 

 LOUGHTAK (Russian). Air dried skins of all seals. 



LUPUS (Russian). Fulmarus glatiahs, var. Eodgersi. Fulmar. A large species of petrel. 

 MAASLUCKEN (Aleutian). Missing, or minus. 



MATKA (Russian). Mother; appled to female fur-seals and sea-lions. 

 MEDVAIDSKI (Russian). Bears. 

 MELCHISKA (Russian) Boy ; urchin. 

 MEES (Russian). Cape; headland; point. 

 MISTA (Russian). Place; spot. 



MOROSHKA (Russian). The fruit of Rubus chamcemorus. "Little frost berry." 

 MORSEZOVI A (Russian). Walrus island ; also, " Morserovia ". 

 MORSKIE KOT (Russian). Fur-seals ("sea-cat"). 



NAHVOSTOKE (Russian). "To the eastward"; applied to the.Black Bluffs on St. Paul. 

 NAHSAYVERNIA (Russian). "To or on the north shore." 

 NAH SPEEL (Russian). ' ; On the point"; a corruption of "nah speetsah". 

 NEARHPAH (Russian). Phoca vitulina. The hair-seal. 



NOVASTOSHNAH (Russian). "Place of recent growth"; applied to Northeast point. 

 OCHEN (Russian). Very. 



OOTKIE (Russian). Duck ; applied to all ducks. 

 OREEL (Russian). Graculus Mcriatatus. Shag, cormorant. 

 OSTROV (Russia;)). Island. 

 PAHKNOOT (Russian). A smell. 



PAHTOSHKIE (Russian). Leucosticte tcplirocotis var. griseinucha. Gray-eared finch. 

 PEESAICH, pi. PEESTCHEE (Russian). Vulpes lagopus. Blue and white foxes. 

 POD (English). A smaller or larger gathering of seals on land. 

 POLAVINA SOPKA (Russian). Halfway mountain. 

 POLTOOS (Russian). Hippoglossus vulgaris. Halibut. 

 POMEERAT (Russian). To die; applied only to the decease of animals. 

 PREOASHCHIK (Russian). An agent; a clerk; a sheriff. 

 PREDOVCHIK (Russian). The "senior officer". 

 PROMYSHLENIK (Russian). A hunter. 

 POVARNIK (Russian). A cook-room. 



PUP (English). The young of the fur-seal and sea-lion, up to the age of one year. 

 RAAK (Russian). The common crab. (Chionoeocetes.) 

 RAHKOOSHKA (Russian). The common mussel. (Mytilus.) 

 RAP-O-LOOF (Russian). Turdus migratorius. Red-breasted Robin. 

 RAZBOINEK (Russian). Robber. 

 REPKIE (Russian). EcMnoidce. Sea-urchins. 

 ROOKERY, pi. ROOKERIES (English). Breeding-grounds and breeding-seals thereon. 



