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He resided at Unalaska from the time of his arrival there in 1824 

 till 1834, when he was made a bishop. He then went, after the cus- 

 tom of his church, to Irkutsk and was there invested with his sacred 

 office, taking- the name of Innokenti or Innocentius. Returning- he 

 went to Sitka and labored successfully among the Indians there for a 

 time, and later returned to Russia, where he reached the highest office 

 in the Russo-Greek church, becoming Metropolite of Moscow. He 

 became blind and died at an advanced age some time prior to 1880. 



Veniaminof was not merely a noble and successful missionary, but 

 is known for his ethnologic and linguistic studies as well. There was 

 published at St. Petersburg, in Russian, in 1840 his Notes on the 

 Islands of the Unalaska District, in two volumes, with a supplemen- 

 tary or third part on the Atkans and Koloshians. These books are 

 standard works, and it is regrettable that they are accessible only in 

 Russian. He learned the Aleutian language and wrote a grammar and 

 dictionary of it, which was published in 1846. In the same year he 

 also published a sketch of the Koloshian and Kodiak languages. All 

 these works have been used in preparing this dictionary. 



AVestern Union Telegraph Exploration, 1865-1867. 



After the failure of the second Atlantic telegraphic cable, the 

 Western Union Telegraph Company, believing that an ocean cable 

 could not succeed, undertook to construct an overland telegraph to 

 Asia and Europe via Bering strait. For this purpose preparations 

 were made on a large scale and parties worked, explored, and built 

 some line in British Columbia, Alaska, and Siberia in 1865 and 1866. 

 When the third Atlantic cable proved, in 1866, to be a success the 

 whole enterprise was abandoned and the geographic information col- 

 lected by it was scattered. No satisfactory general account of this 

 venture has been published. Several manuscript maps were made 

 but not published. A photograph of one of these is the authority 

 chiefly usea and cited in this dictionary. 



WORONKOFSKI, 1836. 



Lieutenant Woronkofski, of the pilot corps, by direction of the 

 Russian American Company, surveyed in 1836 the southern shore of 

 Alaska peninsula from the vicinity of Chignik bay, where Vasiliefs 

 work ended in 1832, westward to Unimak pass, connecting with 

 Staniukovich's survey of the north shore in 1828. He sailed from 

 Sitka on this errand on March 6, 1836, in command of the company's 

 transport luidicd: The survey was carried on in bidarkas and his 

 assistants were Aleuts. He returned to Sitka on August 30. Baer 

 and Helmersen speak in high praise of this work in the brief account 

 given of it in their Beitrage zur Kentniss des Russischen Reiches, 8°, 



