470 



INDEX. 



Golovin Bay, Norton's Round, mines in, 



424 

 Goreloi, island of, 183, 184 

 Government, civil laws, etc., for Alaska, 



42 

 Greek Church, in Alaska, 40, 41, 120, 121, 



137, 164, 174, 178, 388 

 Guano, accumulation prevented, 221 



H 



Haidah Indians, best savages of the Sit- 

 kan region, 44 

 house, or " rancherie," 4B, 47, 48, 49, 51 



Hair-seal, description of, 255, 256, 257, 

 332 

 picture of Phoca-foetida, 441 

 picture of E. barbatus, 383 



Halibut, Sitkau natives fishing for, 55, 63 

 Aleutes fishing for, 212, 213 



Hauling grounds, selection of, by fur- 

 seals, 294, 295, 296 



Hogs, 108, 208 



Hot springs, near Sitka, 68 



Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, 122, 

 183, 184 



Homeward voyage and shipwreck of Ber- 

 ing, 3, 4 



Human protection of fur-seals, 373 



Hunting sea-otter, 127, 128, 129, 133, 

 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 

 142, 143, 144 



Hutchinson, H.M., his labors, 247, 348 



Ice Company, San Francisco, 105 

 Icy Bay, grand glacier in, 19, 20 

 Ilyamna, volcano of, 87 



lake, 396 

 Implements, agricultural, manufacture 



of, at Sitka, 33 

 Indians of the Sitkan region, 43, 44, 45, 



46, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 59. 60, 64, 65 

 Ingaleek, or Interior Indians of Alaska, 



408, 417, 418 

 Innuits, or Eskimo, characteristics of, 



376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 



384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 



392, 393, 394, 411, 426, 431, 432, 437, 



456, 457, 458 

 Intoxication among Alaskan natives, 66, 



137, 174, 175, 235 



Japanese and Aleutian facial resem- 

 blance, 163 



Jumping out of water by fur-seals, 300, 

 301 



Juneau, gold mining at, 69 



Juvenal, tragic death of Father, 396, 397 



K 



Kadiak, the island of, 98, 99, 103 

 sheep raising, 107 



Kadiak, old colonial citizens of, 104 

 sea-otter hunting by native.? of, 116 

 old ship-huilding industry, 105, 106 

 Ice Company of San Francisco, 105 

 timber line drawn upon, 103 

 wars of early Russian traders, 102, 103 

 visit, and establishment of Shellikov, 

 99, 100, 101, 102 

 Kanaga, island of, 181, 183 

 Kaniags, natives of Kadiak, 109, 110 

 Kamlayka, the water-proof, 371 

 Kashga, the Innuit, 385, 386, 387 

 Kenai Peninsula, 84, 85, 86 

 Kenaitze Indians, habits and appearance 

 of, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 93 

 queer architecture of, 92 

 Killer whales, their ferocity, 325, 327, 



330 

 Killing grounds. Seal Islands, 337, 338, 



339, 340, 341 

 Killing sea-lions, method of natives, 368, 



369 

 Kings Island, or Ookivok, 425, 426 

 Kotzebue Sound, characteristics of, 432, 



433, 434 

 Kolmakovsky, trading-post of, 406 

 Krenitzin Group of Islands, 148 

 Kuskokvim region, characteristics of, 

 402, 403, 404, 405 

 density of population of, 403, 404 

 commercial poverty of it, 407, 408 

 prevalence of mosquitoes in it, 405, 406 



Land and scenery of the Sitkan region, 



14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 3(), 27 

 of the Mount St. Elias region, 71, 72, 



73, 74, 75 

 of the Cook's Inlet, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 

 of the Kadiak district, 98, 99, 100, 103, 



104, 105, 106, 117 

 of the Aleutian district, 148, 149, 150, 



152, 1.53, 154, 155, 156, 157, 163, 163 

 of the Pribylov Islands. 215, 236, 227 

 of the Nooshagak region, 374, 375, 376, 



395 

 of the Kuskokvim region, 395, 403, 404, 



405, 406, 407 

 of the Yukon region, 395 

 of the Bering Sea Islands, 435, 426, 427, 



430, 442, 443, 461, 462 

 of the Alaskan Arctic region, 424, 425, 



434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440 

 Law, natural, obeyed among the fur-seals, 



310 

 protecting the seal islands, 250 

 Lead, ore of, miner's prospecting for, 434 

 Lease of the Seal Islands, 250 



Mackerel, Atkhan, or " yellow-fish," 



181, 183 

 Mahklok, big hair-seal (Erignathus), 383, 



383 

 Makooshin, volcano of, 160, 161 



