INDEX. 



473 



steamers, trading, on the Yukon, 414 

 Steller, George W., his labors, ISO 

 Stench arising from fur-seal carcasses, 

 350, 351 



from decaying salmon and its roe, 57, 

 399 

 Superstitions of the natives, SO, 81, 90 

 Survevs of the fur-seal breeding grounds, 



310," 311, 312 

 Swans, capture of, 399 

 Swimming feats of fur-seals, 300, 301, 



303 



Tanaga, island of, ISl, 1S3 

 Telegraph. Collins Overland, 427, 428 

 Thlinkets, or Sitkan Archipelago Indians, 



43, 44, 45, 52, 53, 54, 59, 60 j 



Tidal phenomena of Cook's Inlet, S3, 87 



of Bristol Bay, 374, 375 ' 



of Kuskokvim River, 402 



imcertainties in Bering Sea, 197, 198 j 

 Tigalda, island of, 154, 155 

 Timber of Alexander Archipelago, 21, 22, 



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 

 Tinneli, 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, 352 

 Totem and totemic posts, 49 

 Transfer of Alaska, cause why so done, 



11,12 

 Traffic by traders in the Sitkan region, 

 3(), 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 



V 



Ugiak, Eskimo sea-god, 393, 423 

 Uses of sea- lion skins in making boats, 

 370, 371 



of walrus -skins in making boat.s, 4.54 



of walrus-teeth, 404 



Veniaminov, the distinguished Russian 

 priest, 37, 309 



Volcanic region of Cook's Inlet, 87 

 region of Oonimak, 140, 147, 148 

 region of Atkha, 183 

 region of Oomnak, 101 



Volcanic elevation of Bogaslov Islet re- 

 cently, ISO, 187 



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

 430 

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

 of Tscherikov (1741), 1, 73, 74 

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

 of Simeon Deschnev (1648), 429 



W 



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, 435, 444 

 Walrus Islet, a description of, 220, 444, 

 445 



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

 222 233 

 Walrus and seal-hunting and hunters, 400, 



420, 440, 441, 4(50, 461 

 Wars of the ThUnkets, 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, 1.53 



Americans, 71, 72, 440, 441 



Innuit, 439 

 Wolves, none on the Aleutian Chain now, 



1,56 

 Wrangel, Mount, the highest North 

 American peak, 77 



townof, 17, 18, 35 



Yukon, the river, its characteristics, 413, 

 413. 414, 415, 416, 419 

 contiguous country to, 415, 416 

 itspeople, 417, 418, 419 



Zagoskin, Lieutenant, his labors (1841- 



1845), 423 

 Zarenbo, island of, 37 



Lieutenant, 35 

 Zalophn.s and Eumetopias, differences 

 between, 363 



