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come to visit them from other islands. They have an extra- 
ordinary way of punishing adultery: the husband challenges 
the adulterer to a combat, which is performed in the followin 
manner: both the combatants are stripped quite naked, wad 
the challenger gives the challenged a club, about three feet 
long, and near as thick as one’s arm: then the challenger is 
obliged to receive three strokes upon his back from the chal- 
lenged, who then returns him the club and is visited in the 
common with the Tchuktchi and Tungus. Their clothes are 
made of the skins of sea fowls, foxes, sea otters, and other ani- 
mals ; and are generally composed of the skins of very differ- Be 
ent creatures, so that it is rare to see a whole suit made of th id 
same sort of skins.” 
apt. Golovnin, in the memoirs of his captivity, informs us 
that he had a native with him from one of the northern of the 
Kurile Islands, and the evidence he is thus able to give in re- 
gard to the identity of the inhabitants of the Kurile Island 
and those of Yesso, and to the similarity of their dialects, is 
very conclusive. He says: “The language of the inhabitants’ 
of all the Kurile Islands, except some tribes on the south part = 
of Matsmai, is alike, with the exception of such words and the 
names of such things as the no: i. . 
the Russians, and those of the south from the apanese, 
Alexi (the Aino mentioned above), though he had difficulty 
in understanding them, yet it never happened that he did not 
comprehend them after some explanation ; in a word, the lan- 
ages of the inhabitants of Matsmai (another name for 
esso) and of the other Kurile Islands resemble each other 
much more than the Russian and Polish. The Kuriles of all 
the islands and Yesso call themselves Ainu (better Aino) ; but 
to distinguish the inhabitants of the different islands, includ- 
ing Matsmai, hey add to every ord the name of the island, 
