INDEX. 



473 



Steamers, trading, on the Yukon, 414 

 Steller, George W., his labors, 189 

 Stench arising from fur-seal carcasses, 

 350, 351 



from decaying salmon and its roe, 57, 



399 



Superstitions of the natives, 80, 81, 90 

 Surveys of the fur-seal breeding grounds, 



310/311, 312 

 Swans, capture of, 399 

 .Swimming feats of fur-seals, 300, 301, 



302 



TAXAGA, island of, 181, 183 

 Telegraph. Collins Overland, 427, 428 

 Thlinkets, or Sitkan Archipelago Indians, 



4:;. 44, 45,52, 53, 54, 59, 60 

 Tidal phenomena of Cook's Inlet, 83, 87 



of Bristol Bay, 374, 375 



of Kuskokvim River, 402 



uncertainties in Bering Sea, 197, 198 

 Tigalda, island of, 154, 155 

 Timber of Alexander Archipelago, 21, 22, j 



of Mount St. Elias region, 72, 77 



of Cook's Inlet region, 85 



of Kadiak District region, 103, 104, 105 



of Aleutian District region, 157 



of Alaskan Interior region, 395, 408, 409, ; 

 410 



of Alaskan Arctic region, 425, 439, 443 j 

 Tinneh, or Ingaleeks of Alaska, 408 

 Timidity and shyness of pinnipeds at sea, 



331 



Togiaks, Quaker-like Innuits, 401, 402 

 Treasury Department, its control of Seal > 



Islands, 250, 251, 252 

 Totem and totemic posts, 49 

 Transfer of Alaska, cause why so done, 



11,12 



Traffic by traders in the Sitkan region, 

 36, 37, 38, 39 



in the Kadiak region, 119, 120, 129 



in the Aleutian region, 129, 191 



in the Yukon, Nooshagak, and Kuskok- 

 vim region, 384, 414, 418 



in the Bering Sea and the Arctic, 425 

 Treadwell Gold-mining Stamp Mill, 69, 71 

 Tusks of the Walrus, 450, 451 



UGIAK, Eskimo sea-god, 393, 423 

 Uses of sea- lion skins in making boats, 

 370, 371 



of walrus -skins in making boats, 454 



of walrus-teeth, 404 



VENIAMINOV, the distinguished Russian 

 priest, 37, 309 



Volcanic region of Cook's Inlet, 87 

 region of Oonimak, 146, 147, 148 

 region of Atkha, 183 

 region of Oomnak, 161 



Volcanic elevation of Bogaslov Islet re- 

 cently, 186, 187 



Voyage of Captain Cook (1778), 83, 176, 



of Veit Bering (1741 ), 1, 2, 3, 4, 73, 74 

 of Tscherikov (1741), 1, 73, 74 

 of Shellikov (1782-84), 99, 100, 102 

 of Simeon Deschnev (1648), 429 



WALKER, Lake, 399, 400 

 Walrus, a description of, 444, 445, 446, 

 447, 449 



in Bristol Bay, 399 



alarm when approached in boats, 332 



in Arctic, 425, 444 

 Walrus Islet, a description of, 220, 444, 



visit to, gathering eggs, 210, 220, 221, 



Walrus and seal-hunting and hunters, 400, 



426, 440, 441. 460, 461 

 Wars of the Thlinkets, 44 



of the Innuits, 417 



of the Russian traders, 6, 29, 30, 101 

 Water-craft of the Sitkans, 62, 63 



of the Aleutes, 33 



of the Ingaleeks, 417 



of the Innuits, 411, 427, 453, 454 

 Weaving, grass baskets, hats, etc., by 



Aleutians, 181 



grass and bark, by Sitkans, 52 

 Whaling, Aleutian, 151, 152, 153 



Americans, 71, 72, 440, 441 



Innuit, 439 

 Wolves, none on the Aleutian Chain now, 



156 



Wrangei, Mount, the highest North 

 American peak, 77 



town of, 17, 18,25 



YUKON, the river, its characteristics, 412, 



413. 414, 415, 416, 419 

 contiguous country to, 415, 416 

 its people, 417, 418, 419 



ZAGOSKIN, Lieutenant, his labors (1841- 



1845), 422 

 Zarenbo, island of, 27 



Lieutenant, 25 



Zalophus and Eumetopias. differences 

 between, 362 



