38 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



the Indians had destroj^ed the Russian settlement at Sitka. Accord- 

 ingly he sailed thither (August 15-20), and on October 1, 1804, bom- 

 barded and d(>.stroyed the Indian village which was located on Indian 

 river near the present site of Sitka. On November 10-15 he returned 

 to Kodiak and wintered there. The next year (June 14-22, 1805) he 

 returned to Sitka and remained there till September 1, when he set 

 sail for Canton and thus ended his work in Alaska. He pul)lished in 

 English an account of the voyage in 1814, entitled Voyage Round the 

 AVoi-ld in 1803-1806, by Urey Lisianski, 4°, London, 1814. 



LuTKE, 1827-28. 



One of the important authorities used in preparing this dictionary 

 is Capt. Feodor Petrovich Lutke, who, in command of the Russian 

 corvette Seniavine and accompanied by Capt. Mikhail Nikolaievich 

 Staniukovich in command of the sloop Moller, made a voyage round 

 the world in 1826-1829. 



An account of the voyage was published in Russian in 1834-1836, in 

 3 octavo volumes, a folio atlas, and another volume called Nautical part. 

 It appeared at the same time in French. The nautical part is a rare 

 book. The two copies of itin the Library of Congress, one in French, 

 the other in Russian, are the only ones known to the writer. This 

 Partie nautique contains hydrographic and geographic information as 

 to Bering sea, Alaska peninsula, etc., derived not merely from Lutke's 

 own work but also from various Russian sources previously unpub- 

 lished. Pressing public duties delayed the preparation and publica- 

 tion of this work, and finally it appeared in a crude form far from 

 satisfactor}^ to its author. Despite its defects, however, the work is 

 of first importance in dealing with the evolution of our geographic 

 knowledge of Alaska. An index to this book was prepared by Mr. 

 Dall and published by the Coast Survey in 1883 in the Coast Pilot of 

 Alaska. 



Lutke and Staniukovich sailed from Cronstadt on September 1, 1826, 

 and, roundiiig Cape Horn, arrived at Sitka on June 24, 1827. Here 

 Lutke remained till July 31 and then sailed to Unalaska, arriving on 

 August 22. After a stay of eight days in Unalaska he cruised north- 

 ward and Avestward in Bering sea to the Pribilof islands, St. Matthew, 

 the Connnander islands, and to Petropavlovsk. From here he cruised 

 southward and returned to Petropavlovsk on June 9, 1828. After a 

 stay of sixteen days he cruised and surveyed along the Siberian coast 

 to St. Lawrence bay in Bering strait and returned on September 4, 

 1828, to Petropavlovsk. He took final leave of this place on Novem- 

 ber 9, 1828, and, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, returned home, 

 arriving at Cronstadt on September 6, 1829. 



