NOTES. 215 



" Since I wrote my account, I have been able to consult Steller's 

 own description of the wintering, and I find that the house which I 

 have described and given the plan of, was the one they built in the 

 spring, after the freshet which drove them out of the dug-outs {Oru- 

 ben) on the bank of the creek, traces of which are still visible. 

 I also found a number of relics at a place which I took to be the 

 point where they rebuilt the vessel. In a letter Mr. Lauridsen sug- 

 gested to me the probability that I had found not this place, but the 

 locality where the store-house was built, in which the men left what 

 they could not carry on the new vessel, and that the latter must 

 have been built near the southern end of the bay. After reading 

 Steller's own account, however, I feel absolutely certain that the 

 ship was built at the northern end, near the huts and dug-outs, at the 

 place where I found the relics. It is quite probable, however, that 

 the store-house was built in very close proximity, if not on the very 

 spot." 



65. ljeonha,rd Stejneger: Fr a det yderste Osten. Naturen, Vol. 

 8. Kristiania, 1884, pp. 65-69. — Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, 1884. Investigations Relating to the Date of the 

 Extermination of Steller's Sea-Cow, by Leonhard Stejneger. — Henry 

 W. Elliott: A Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska, Washing- 

 ton, lSS2.—JSreue JST. Beitrage, II., 279.— G. W. Steller: Ausf. 

 Beschreihung von sonderharen 3Ieerihieren. Halle, 1753. — E. 

 Reclus: Oeographie, etc., VI., 794. 



66. Concerning Chirikoff , full information is given in Sokoloff : 

 Chirikoff's Voyage to America, St. Petersburg, 1849 (Russian). 

 He died in 1748 at Moscow. 



See also H. H. Bancroft, History of the Pacific States of North 

 America, Vol. XXXIII., History of Alaska, San Francisco, 1886.— 

 Tr. 



