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numbers give tliem coufidence and the ■whites are not numerous. These 



people ascend the Niinatok to a point wliere an easy portage can be had to 



the upper waters of the Colville, and have an annual barter at the moiith 



of the latter river with the eastward-bound Innuit from Point Barrow. The 



Nimutok is also known as the Inland liiver, which is a translation of its 



Innuit name. _ 



KOWAG'-MUT. 



= Koti-Cin'g-mitin, Dr. Simpson. 



Falling into Ilotham Inlet, near its eastern extremity, is a river known 

 as the Kowak, on the banks of which graphite and galena are found. A 

 feAv Innuit inhabit the region near its mouth, and bear the above local name, 

 while others somewhat to the eastward, on the Sela'wik River, are called 

 Selawig' -nmt. The latter have some trade with the Koyukak Indians. 



Most of the names above mentioned are merely local, and indicate no 

 special peculiarities of language or habits. They may, for convenience, be 

 correllated as follows: 



■ WESTERN MACKENZIE INNUIT. 



KojKl'gmut, Edng-mSJi'g-mHl. 



WESTERN INNtJIT. 



Nuwiili'-miit, Kunuto' g-mut , Eotviuj'mut , Selawig'-mut. 



We now come to a series of b-ibes better known than any of those 

 previously mentioned, and on which I have had the opportunity of personal 

 observation. I have already given a somewhat full account of them in 

 Alaska and its Besourccs, as well as some notes in my summary of 18G9. 

 The following general headings will be strictly tribal, and the local village 

 names will be subordinated in a list by themselves. For convenience' sake, 

 I shall commence at the extreme westward.* 



* Altbough uot strictly withiu the limits of this paiier, 1 mention here, as bearing on'the rehitions 

 of the Innuit tribes above moutioned, the 



"CHUKCHLS". 

 = Eeindeer Chukchis of authors. 



<C Chukchis, Wrangell and others (variously spelled). 

 = Reindeer men of adjacent Innuit. 

 = Tswtsin, or Tchcklo, of some authors, said to be their national uatno. 



Although the very esisteuco of such a people as these has beeu of late denied, aud tUe name I have 

 provisionally used is doubtless based on some misconception, I believe that the evidence of the existence 

 of a tribe of people different from tlie Orarians of the coast, but in coustaut communication with them, 

 is overwhelming. I have myself seen two of these jieople, in lh<(ir), at Tlover Bay. Tliey are of a tall and 



