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Sound, unci tlic southern and eastern shores of Kenai Penhisula. Those at 

 Port Etches {NuchcJc) call themselves NucUtg'mut. There are some half a 

 dozen small settlements containing not over six hundred people, and probably 

 a less number. 



UGALAK'MUT. 



=^ Ugalcitisi' of tbo Russians, Turner in App. Luiliswij;. 

 = Ugalenize, Ilolmberj^, wrongly placed among tbe T'iiukots 

 ? Ugalaclimj uti o( Erm-.m. 

 .= Ugalenskoi, Woriuau in Tikhmenief. 

 = Ugaljaknijats or Ugaljakhmuisi of authors, Turner 1. c. 

 =: Ugaldk'muf, their own tribal name according to the tradeis. 

 = Chilkhak'mut, their own tribal name according to the Nutehigraut Innuit. 



This peoide has long been one of the stumbling-blocks in the ethnology 

 (jf the northwest coast. On my visit to Port JCtches in 1874, I learned 

 from the natives definitely that the Ugalak'mut of the traders were, like 

 themselves, Innuit, and called themselves CJiilkhak-iiiOf, and had formerly 

 occupied the coast continuously with themselves; but the Ah-tena Indians 

 forced their way between the two tribes and hold a small part of the coast 

 near the Copper River mouth. Uffal'entsi is the Russian name for these 

 people, and is formed by adding a Russian tennination to the root of their 

 supposed tribal name. It follows that the distinction formerly drawn by me 

 between the Ugalak-miit and the Ugalentsi falls to the ground, though at 

 the time it seemed warranted by the vocabularies furnished by the Russians 

 to Mr. Gibbs. The older errors, as to this tribe being T'linkets or Tinneh, 

 arose probably from a confusion of vocabularies, obtained either of the 

 Ahtena, or some wandering band of Yakutats, who sometimes come from 

 Bering Bay in canoes to trade at Port Etches. 



The UgalakmCit reside on Kayak or Kaye Island in winter, and 

 piu-sue the salmon fishery at the mouth of the Atna River and along the 

 coast nearly to Icy Bay in summer. They comprise only some two hun- 

 dred families, and are the most eastern of the Innuit tribes now occupying 

 territory on this coast. It is probable, however, from shell-heap remains 

 obtained by Lieutenant Ring, U. S. A., at the mouth of the Stiklne Ri^•er 

 that at one period the Innuit extended at least to that point, if not farther 

 east and south. 



