468 



INDEX. 



Belcovsky, village of, 119, 120 

 Bidarrah, use of, how it is made, S-Mi, 



347, 458, 454 

 Bidarka, use of, how it is made, 133 

 Birth of fiu--seals, 282 

 Bishop Innocent Veniaminov, his labors, 



309 

 Blubber of fur-seal, sea-lion, mahklok, 



and beluga, 292, 345, 405 

 Bogaslov Islet, volcanic eruption of, re- 

 cently, 186, 167 

 Borka, village of, 176, 177 

 Bristol Bay, 118, 398 



Breeding grounds, number of fur-seals 

 on, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 

 317, 319, 330, 321 



of sea-lions, 187, 310, 354, 350, 357, 358, 

 361 



of hair-seals, 256 



of sea-otters, 1 32 



of water-fowl, 210, 21 1 

 Burials and funerals of the Sitkans or 

 Thlinkets, 50 



of the Innuits or Eskimo, 389, 410 



of the Aleutes, 178 

 Burnt or Brule districts, 408, 409 



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Camps, Innuit summer, 381, 426 

 Kenaitze hunting, 91 



Canoes, Sitkan, 62, 63 

 Ingaleek, 417 



Carousals, Aleutian beer orgies, 137, 174, 

 175 



Carving bone and ivory, skill of Innuits, 

 384 

 wood, skill of Haidahs, 49 



Cape Prince of Wales, 428, 429, 431 



Capture of sea-otters, 128, 191, 133 

 of sea-lions, 364, 3(55 



Carcasses of slaughtered fur-seals, 350, 

 351, 352, 353 



Cassiar Gold-diggings, 17, 18, 25 



Cattle in Alaska, 86, 106, 107, 178, 184 



Cereals, total failure in Alaska, 107 



Chernaboor islets, 138, 141 



Christianity among the Aleutes and Kadi- 

 akers, 115, 116, 171, 172, 241, 246 

 among the Innuits, 410 

 among the Thlinkets, 40, 41, 42 



Church, Greek, 40, 41, 120, 121, 137, 164, 

 174, 178, 241, 388 



Clans, the several Sitkan tribes, 43 



Climate of the Sitkan region, 24 



of the Mount St. Elias region, 72, 77 



of the Cook's Inlet region, 93 



of the Kadiak region (see Cook's Inlet) 



of the Aleutian Islands, 158, 185 



of the Pribylov Islands, 194, 195, 196, 



197 

 of the Nooshagak region, 382, 404 

 of the Kuskokvim region, 382. 404, 407 

 of Michaelovsky and the Yukon, 421, 



422, 424 

 of Arctic coast of Alaska, 427 



Coal in Cook's Inlet, 125 



in the Arctic, 125, 438 



in Shoomagin Group, 125 



in Sitkan region, 70, 71 

 Coins, Russian names and values of, 8 

 Codfish, industry of, at Oonga, 122, 123, 



124 

 Companies, rival trading, 191 

 Consumption, chief cause of death-rate 



among natives, 110 

 Cook's Inlet, characteristics of, 82, 83, 

 84, 85, 86, 87 



country north of, 87 

 Copper River, its character, 76, 77 

 Cossacks, Russian and Siberian, 128, 159 

 Courage of fur-seals, 279 

 Creoles, what they are, 108 

 Crillon, Mount, 72 

 Cruelties inflicted by Russian traders 



upon natives, G, 128, 147, 15'.) 

 Curing and dressing fur-seal skins, 345, 



346, 347, 348, 349 



Dangeks of Alaskan coast navigation, 76, 

 83, 117. 123, 218, 219, 374, 375, 395, 

 440, 442 

 to which young fur-seals are exposed, 

 283, 329, 330 



Death, natural, of fur-seals, 307 



Decaj' of the Russian American Coni- 

 pany after Baranov's removal, 11 



Deer, Sitkan, 55, 62 

 Rein, 121, 122, 397, 418 



Definition of technical terms on Seal 

 Islands, 320, 321 



Delta of the Copper River, 75, 77 

 of the Yukon River, 414, 415 



Deschnev, Simeon, his remarkable voy- 

 age (1648), 429 



Diet of natives of the Sitkan region, 58 

 of the Cook's Inlet region, 95 

 of the Kadiak region, 136, 137 

 of the Aleutian region, 168 

 of the Seal Islands, 241, 242, 243 

 of the Innuits, 382, 383, 454, 455, 456 



Diomedes, islands of, Bering Straits, 

 430, 431, 432, 441 ■ 



Diseases, natives most afflicted with, 110, 

 111, 112, 113, 114, 238 



Docility of fur-seals when driven, and 

 being killed, 335 



Dogs, Eskimo, 388 

 Sitkan, 61 

 none on the Aleutian Chain, 158 



Dressing fur-seal skins, 348, 349 



Driving fur-seals, 333, 334, 336 

 sea-lions. 366, 367, 368 



Dwellings of the Aleutes, 133, 166, 167 

 of the Innuits, 378, 379, 380. 381, 426 

 of the Cook's Inlet Kenaitze, 91, 92, 93 

 ol the Sitkans or Thlinkets, 46, 47, 48, 



49, 51, 60. 64 

 of the Seal Islanders, 232, 233^ 

 of the white fi;r-traders, 36, 175 



