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cus Bay, East Siberia. Off Indian Point (Cape Tchaplin), East 
Siberia, a little further north than Marcus Bay, we were told 
by Eskimo, who came aboard the vessel, that they sometimes take 
cod at that point. 
In the Arctic Ocean we saw no traces of the Gadus morrhua, its 
place being supplied to some extent by myriads of small polar 
cod (Loreogadus satda), which, like the pollock, has the lower jaw 
longer than the upper. On the 19th of August, 1880, in latitude 
60 deg. 45 min. north, longitude 166 deg. 35 min. west, we saw 
great numbers of young Soreogadus ; from an inchto an inch and 
a half long, swimming under the tentacles of a Cyanea-like jelly- 
fish. 
COMMON NAMES. 
J. G. Swan writes that the cod is called “ Kadatl” by the Makah 
Indians. The Sitkas call it “Sacht.” A Kodiak Eskimo, to 
whom | showed one of the fresh fish, told me that they knew it 
as “Ah-mo-doc’.”” The Russian name for the species is “‘ Treska”’ 
——a name pretty widely known in the territory. It is worthy of 
remark here that natives generally distinguish closely the “ Wach- 
na” from the “ Treska.” To the fishermen generally the fish is 
known as “the cod.’’ Men who have come to the Alaskan 
grounds from New England have brought with them the terms 
“rock cod” and “kelp bangers” for certain individual varie- 
ties. ‘“ Rock-cod” are the variously colored algz fish, exactly 
similar to those known by the same name at Gloucester. ‘“ Kelp 
bangers”’ are shore fish that frequent the kelp, as their name 
suggests. ‘“‘Wachna” is a term applied to the tom-cod and 
also to a species very different structurally from this. 
SIZE, 
J. G. Swan reports that none but small cod occur in Puget 
Sound and Hood’s Canal. I measured several fresh ones at Sitka 
which were bought from Indians; one taken May 30th was 662 
millimeters long, two others secured June 12th, were 435 milli- 
meters and 542 millimeters respectively. Capt. J. Haley informed 
me that he purchased 10,000 fish in two weeks from Indians on 
