BIRTHS AND DEATHS ON COMMANDER ISLANDS. 



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during the years 1868 to 1881 lias been studied by Dr. B. Dybowski/ whose tables 

 relating to births and deaths are interesting enough to deserve a place in this 

 connection. 



Number of iirths and deaths on Commander Islands, 1868 to 1881. 



Births and deaths on Commander Islands, according to months, from 1868 to 1881. 



The Commander Islanders, being derived from the other Aleutian Islands, do nut 

 .differ from their relatives now under American authority in any essential point, and 

 they naturally possess the characteristics, both good and bad, of the latter. By nature 

 gentle, intelligent, and honest, the worst of their present vices have been acquired by 

 contact with white men. I have spent twenty months among them, and I have only 

 the most pleasant recollections of these simple-hearted people. 



Notwithstanding their common origin, there is a marked difference between the 

 natives on Bering Island and those on Copper Island. The former are more reticent, 



1 Wyspy Komandorskie, pp. 78-87. 



