858 Chukchi and Namollo People of Eastern Siberia, [November, 
means of rightly locating a part of these people and the rest will 
doubtless be cleared up before many years by new investigations. 
F. von Stein, in Petermann’s Mittheilungenj has recently given 
an interesting résumé of the information in regard to these people 
contained in articles by Nordqvist and Hovgaard in the Isvestia” 
of the Russian Geographical Society ; among others who have 
contributed some information on the subject, most of whom are 
referred to by Stein, are Wrangell,? Neumann, Maydell® (or Mai- 
del), Kennan,® Bush,’ Stimpson,’ Professor Asaph Hall’ and Dall.” 
Others, to whom I have seen no reference made, are Shismareff"™ 
and an unknown writer in the Journal of the Interior Depart- 
ment” of Russia, both articles being in the Russian language. 
In a summary of our work for the season of 1880 (being an 
abstract of a letter from me describing my third visit to the coast 
of Northeast Siberia), contained in the January number of the 
Royal Geographical Society’s Proceedings, this paragraph oc 
curred : 
“Tt was remarked that the proper name of the people on the 
Asiatic side described by Nordenskiold and his companions, and 
previously by Hooper® and Mr. Dall, is Ya’-it, a corruption oF 
shortening of In-ni-it (Eskimo), of which they merely form one 
tribe. They are totally distinct in language, race and manners 
from the so-called Reindeer Chukchis ( Zsa’ ~yit-al), who are a 
mere tribe of the Korak nation.” 
To this somewhat ambiguous and not literally exact statement, 
Lieut. Nordqvist has taken exception in a communication to the 
11881, Heft 11, pp. 41-45. 
*Band xvi, Heft 11, 1880. 
* Narrative of an expedition to the Polar sea (Sabine’s ed.). 8vo. London, 
(p. 126). Cf. also The Telescope, 1835, No. 26. 
* Hist. Ubers. Tschuktschen Exp.; Isv. Sib. Abth. Russ. Geogr. Soc. Vol. 15 
4-5, 1, No. 3, 1871. 
*Antworten der Tschuktschen Exp.; Isv. 1. c. 1, Nos. 1 and 2, pp- 60-793 
® Tent Life in Siberia, etc. 12mo. New York and London, 1870. (P- 120.) 
"Reindeer, dogs and snowshoes. 8vo. Harper Bros., 1871. (p- 420.) 
8-9 Cf, Alaska and its Resources, PP- 549-554- 
” Alaska and its Resources, Boston, 1870, pp. 374-385. Also, 
1840 
Nos. 
1871. 
Contr. to Am. Eth- 
nology (J. W. Powell), 1, pp. 12-15, 93-106, 1877. Also Proc. Roy. Geogr. 50% 
Jan., 1881, pp. 47-49; Sept., 1881, pp. 568-570. 
1 Zapiski Hydr. Dept., x, pp. 178-200, 1852. ‘Nos. 
” Zhurnal Minist. Vautr. Diel, 8vo, St. Peterbuorg, 1835, XVI, 5» and 1851, 
7. é 
* Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, etc., 8vo, London, J. Murray, ¥ 2 oe 
