ALASKA. 227 



Kolcshians 5, 000 



Copper River ^ 300 



Choogacliie 471 



Peninsula , 1, 600 



KodialiS 1, 508 



Koslcoquim 7, 000 



Yukon River not known 



liussians 700 



Oogahlensie, (Mount Saint Elias, near) 150 



Kolchans, (interior) not known 



Kenai , , , 1, 628 



Aglahnmtes 402 



Ounalaslika Aleuts 1, 497 



Atlca Aleuts , . 750 



Malilemutes, &c not known 



Creoles 1, 295 



Total actually known 22, 800 



Estimate of the rest 17, 000 



Making a total, for the Territory, of some . . 40, 000 



The following is a list of the diiJerent tribes of Indians living 

 between Prince of Wales Island and Yahkutat, or Bering's 

 Bay, Alaska, in 1837-38, (from Veniaminov, part III :) 



" The numbers of these people (Indians) living in Eussiau 

 America between Prince of Wales and Bering's Bay in 1835 

 was 10,000, but now (1838) not much over 6,000. The settle- 

 ments, and people in them, number as follows : 



Souls. 



Yahkutatskie, (Bering's Bay) 150 



Ahkvaystkie, (Lituya Bay) 200 



Laydanoprodevskie 250 



•Ohelkatskie (Ohilcats) , 200 



Ahkootskie 100 



.Seethenskie, (Sitka) 750 



Kootsnovskie, (Hootsino) 300 



Kaykovskie, (Cakes) - 200 



Koonjeskie - 150 



Gaynoovskie 300 



at the same time liis talents and attainments are such as to bo worthy of 

 lis exalted station. With all this, the bishop is sufficiently a man of the 

 world to disdain anything like cant. His conversation, on the contrary, 

 teems with amnsemeut and instruction, and his company is much prized by 

 jsil who have the honor of his acquaintance." 



