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TWO VISITS TO 



only drefled their meat, but alfo warmed themfelves. The natives of this ifle are 

 called by the Tfchutfchi-, Jchiilaet. 



On thg fecond ifle live the fame kind of people, who call it Pejerkely. The 

 chief of them bore each fide of the lips of their children, and introduce into them 

 pieces of the teeth of the walrus : in other refpedfs, they are cloathed like the 

 natives of the firft ifle. Thefe were the two iflands feen in the ftreights by Cap- 

 tain Cook, but were neither named or vifited by him. Thefe people had inter- 

 courfe with the Tfchutfchi ; for in one of the engagements which Colonel Paulutzkl 

 had with them in 1 731, he found one of the iflanders among the Jlain*, with his 

 lips bored as before defcribed. 



Daurkin mentions two ranks of Tfchutfchi ; one who have herds of rein-deer, 

 ftnd others which have none ; the laft live in holes below ground, and fubfift on 

 the flefla of fea animals entirely : but the others, in certain feafons, apply themfelves 

 to the chace of fea bears, walrufes, whales, and belugas, or the white dolphin. 



The fecond journal was made by Iwan Robelef, a Kafak Stonik, or a Cqffacky 

 who commanded a hundred men. In 1779 he was difpatched, like the former, as 

 a fpy into the country of Tfchutfchi ; on the aoth of May he reached the Serdzf 

 kameny in the bay of Notfchan. He obferved there, that the natives poflefled of 

 rein-deer treated thofe who had none as the Ruffiam do their vaflals, and obliged 

 them to fifh for them, and to furnifii them with train-oil, and the flefh of fea- 

 horfes ; for which they fupplied them with that of the rein-deer. 



On "July 17th, Robelef reached the village Jagacgein, and from thence croHed 

 a bay, eight verfts broad, to the village Nernegin : here the Tfchutfchi mentioned to 

 him the arrival of Captain Cook, in 1778, and the intercourfe, as related by 

 Captain Cook, in vol. II. p. 447, of his voyage. Robelef fixes the latitude of 

 the place where he received his account in 65. 48. and in longitude 206. 30. 

 The fame people remembered alfo the vifit paid to them by Behring, feveral years 

 before, when forty of the natives vifited his fliips in four leathern boats. Two 

 important circumflances in the annals of the country. 



Robelef a.Ko vifited the two intermediate ifles ; one he calls Imoglin, which was 

 five verfts long, and two broad. It had two villages, containing two hundred 

 and three males, and a hundred and ninety-five female inhabitants. It lay forty 

 verfts from the Jfiatic fhore. The fecond ifle he calls Ijelgin : its length was 

 three verfts; its breadth one and an half: its diftance from Imoglin, three 

 verfts J from America about thirty. Its number of inhabitants eighty-five 

 males, and feventy-nine females. The chief of this ille was a native of 

 jtmmta, 



• D«TOVcrte8 fait«J par l«s Rujcs, I, 172. 



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