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Second Group. 



UNtJNG'tJN. 



{Aleuts.) 



= Aleuians, Ludewig. 



= Uiiiing'iin, their owu national name, teste Ermau and my own repeated observations. 

 = Ti-yukh' unin, Pinart, M(5m. Soc. Etbu. Paris, 1872, p. ISS. 

 < Aleuts of the Russians. 



= Kagataya Koiing'ns, Humboldt (the corrupted name of the Eastern Aleuts erroneously applied to the 

 whole people according to Pinart). 

 Local names (teste Pinart 1. c): 



Ehagun'-tiind-arin'-khiii, Eastern people, the inhabitants of the Sliumagius and Aliaska. 



Mkha-khiiin or Xamikh'-hun', Western people, the inhabitants of the Audreanoff Islands. 



Kigilch-khrin, Northern Western people, of the Fox Islands proper. 



The name Aleut, applied by the Russians indiscriminately to the 

 Kaniagmut and the inhabitants of the Catherina or Aleutian Archipelago, 

 has gradually become restiicted among writers to the latter group, while its 

 original meaning or derivation, the source of much controversy, is now lost 

 in obscurity. 



The term U-nmuj'uii, I have satisfied myself by repeated inquir}-, at 

 Unalashka, Atka, Attn, and Unga, is a generic term, which these people 

 a])ply to themselves, and which means simply "people" of their race, as 

 distinguished from others. Erman says the original meaning of it is lost, 

 but this is not borne out by my inquiries. According to my observations, 

 TiijaM-khunin, given by Pinart, means Aleutian men, in contradistinction to 

 Unung'im, which means all Aleutian _/;eo/j/e, without distinction. The local 

 names given from Pinart are doubtless authentic, but I have no means of 

 verifying them. On a previous occasion I quoted Humboldt's term, now 

 shown by Pinart to be improperly extended in its range, but without intend- 

 ing to use it as a point in argument of their eastern origin, as he seems to 

 have understood me. These people have lost almost entirely their tribal 

 distinctions indicated by the above local names, though small local jealousies 

 are not entii-ely extinct. They have been transported from island to island, 

 and even to Sitka and Cahfornia, by traders, and are so thoroughly reclaimed 

 from barbarism by long contact with Russian civilization that of their original 

 condition only traces exist. 



They occujjy the entire chain of the Aleutian Islands, the Pribilotf 



