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Pribilof — ('(iiiliiuic'l. 



owiuT of the vessel wliich discovered them. Shehkof ciiUed them Zoii- 

 hoff (after the then Russian Minister of the Interior). Later they were 

 allied Kotow (fur seal) from the immense number of these animals found 

 there and Sieverny (north) from their relation to I'ualaska. Sarichef 

 on liis map named them Pribilof, after their discoverer." (Lutke ;r5»)-887) . 

 In the colonies they were, under the Russians, usually called Ostrovki, 

 the liUle ii<lands. St. George was first seen and landed upon June 'f . 

 1786. Hunters wintered there, and the next year, on June 29, in the morn- 

 ing, they saw St. Paul. On visiting it they found the copper handle of a 

 sword, a clay pipe, and fireplaces— proofs of prior visits by parties unknown. 

 Often now c-alled Thi' Seal Idamh. 



Price; island, near the entrance to Gambier bay. Admiralty island, Alexander arciii- 

 pelago. So named by Mansfield in 1889. 



Priest, bay; see Popof. 



Priest, point; see Kalekta. 



Priest; rf)(;k, near Cape Kalekta, the eastern head of Captains bay, Unalaska, east- 

 ern Aleutians. Locally so called from fancied resemblance to a Russian 

 priest. Lutke says (p. 281) "The broken down cliffs and isolated rocks 

 sometimes take the most fantastic forms; as, for example, the one just in 

 front of Cape Kalekta exactly resembles an old man having his head 

 inclined and his arms crossed on his breast." 



Prince; creek, tributary to Caribou creek. So called 1)yH. H. Hicks, guide of Cap- 

 tain Glenn's expedition in 1898. Not identified and name not fonnd on 

 any map. 



Prhiri' J-'Jnu'sfs, sound; see Ernest. 



Prince of Wales; archipelago, between Dixon entrance and Sumner strait, south- 

 eastern Alaska. Named "The Prince of Wales's Archipelago" l)y \'an- 

 couver in 1793. 



Prince ofWales; cape, at the western end of Seward peninsula, Bering strait, 

 being that point of North America which approaches nearest to Asia. So 

 named by Cook, August 9, 1778. The Eskimo name is reported to be 

 Niekta, also written Nychta. Billings, 1790, calls it Prince of Wales or 

 Kigmil or Kygmil. It is said to have been named Gwozdef by Bering in 

 1 728. Now universally known as Cape Prince of Wales. 



Prince of Wales; island, the largest island of Prince of Wales archipelago, in Alex- 

 ander archipelago. The earliest use of this name appears to l)e in the 

 treaty between Great Britain and Russia of February f|, 1825. 



Prince of Wales; passage, in the southwestern part of Prince AVilliam sound. So 

 named, in. 1787, by Hayward, of Portlock's vessel. 



Prince of Wales; shoal, off Cape Prince of Wales, Bering strait. So called ])y the 

 Coast Survey in 1890. 



Prince William; sound, indenting the northern shore of the Gulf of Alaska. Named 

 Prince William's by Cook in 1778. The Russians called it Chngach gulf 

 or PriTice William sound. 



Princes Head; cliff, on the eastern shore of Captains bay, Unalaska, eastern Aleu- 

 tians. So called by Dall in 1871. 



Prisoners; cove, on the southern shore of Middle Kaigani harbor, Kaigani strait, 

 near Dixon entrance. Named Prisoners cove (pliennaia gavantza) by 

 Etolin in 1833. Some persons identify this, probably erroneously, with 

 Port Meares of Douglas. 

 Pritchard; rocks, in the Galankin group, Sitka sound, Alexander archipelago. So 

 named by United States naval officers in 1880. Called Pritchard shoals 

 in Hydrographic Notice No. 5 of 1880. 



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