24 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



ill isitl). Ill tho jiutumn of lSl»i» he .spent a fcM- weeks in Seward 

 peninsula. In the season of 11H»0 he had charge of a geologic party 

 in Seward i)('n insula, having as geologic assistants Messrs. George B. 

 Richardson and Arthur J. Collier. For reports on this Avork see 

 Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 

 Tart VII, pp. 425— tlU; also Twenty-tirst Annual Report of the United 

 States (Geological Survey, Fart li, pp. 331-391. The report on the 

 work of llHtO is now in proof and is soon to appear as a special publi- 

 cation of the United States Geological Survey. 



Caamano, 1792. 



Lieut. Don Jacinto Caamano, in the corvette ^lm7i5C/2w, was sent out 

 in 17t>2 by Count de Revillagigedo, Viceroy of Mexico, to explore the 

 northwest coast about Juan de Fuca strait and northward with a view 

 to determining the truth about de Fonte's reported Northwest Passage. 

 Sailing from San Bias on March 20, 1792, he arrived in Bucareli bay 

 on July 12, and then surve^yed southward along the southern Alaska 

 coast and British Columbia. He returned to San Bias on Februar}^ 6, 

 1793. No general report on this work was published till long after- 

 ward. Vancouver met him in the field and apparently obtained copies 

 of some of his maps, especially of places just north of Dixon entrance, 

 which he incorporated in his atlas. For an account of this voj^age see 

 Salva (Miguel) y Baranda (Pedro Sainz de), Coleccion de documentos 

 ineditos, etc., s"^ Madrid. 1849, vol. XV, pp. 323-363. 



Chernof, 1832-1838. 



Ivan Chernof was a pilot in the emploj'ment of the Russian American 

 Company and made surveys here and there in Alaska. He surveyed 

 Sviechnikof harbor, in Amlia island, in 1832 and made other surveys in 

 the Rat Island group of the Aleutian islands at about the same period. 

 Lutk(>, in his Voyage, partie nauti(|ue, 1836, p. 327, informs us that 

 knowledge of the Rat Island group at that time, though very incom- 

 plete, was due to Tngenstrem and Chernof. The latter collected 

 detailed information a]>out all the islands and rocks of the group, and 

 even wrot(> out some of these notes. It does not appear that these 

 were ever published. Tebenkof in his notes several times refers to 

 Chernof's work. He is doubtless the same Ivan Chernof who, as a 

 lad, was given ))y the Indians to the Russians as a hostage in 1804 

 and r(>turned to them in 1805. He attended the navigation school at 

 Sitka and afterwards was long in the service of the Russian American 

 Company as a pilot. In 1838 he was skipper of the Russian American 

 Company's brig Polyfcm^ in which Kashevarof explored the Arctic 

 coast. He died in 1877 and his descendents live on Afognak island. 

 See Russian Hydrographic Charts 1378 and 1400 for some of his 

 results. 



