1881.] Chukchi and Namollo People of Eastern Siberia. 861 
Tsau-ya’ may be adopted ;. at least there is no doubt that such as 
live near Plover bay so call themselves. 
Tsau-yu’. 
Reindeer Chukchis of authors. 
Chukchis (variously spelled) of authors, in part. 
Reindeer men of the adjacent coast dwellers in conversation with the traders and 
whalers who know them best by this name. 
Tsau-cha of Erman, in part. 
Tschekto of Matiushkin, in Wrangell, Sabine’s edition, p. 120 (meaning “ people ’’). 
Tsu-tsin of Stimpson, quoted in Alaska and its Resources. 
Tchukchus of Bush, 1. c 
Tsau’-yii-at, Dall in R. Geogr. Soc. Proc., 1. c. 
Kugh-ukh-tiz-i-mat of the Diomede Islanders. 
Wandering Chukchis of authors. 
Aoy-ee’-khit of the Asiatic Eskimo (Cape Chaplin). 
Lieut. Nordqvist tells us that the termination af or ate is 
merely a plural inflection, and that the first part of the word has 
the collective signification, and in this I have no doubt he is correct, 
though until his criticism was made I had not looked thoroughly 
into the matter. 
There is, I presume, little doubt that these people adopt slight 
distinctive changes in their national name according to their 
Native habitat, or that they are in some way divided into clans or 
tribes, since competent explorers give slightly different names as 
the tribal name, yet all with a fundamental similarity. Thus 
Matiushkin on the Kolyma found Chek-to; Erman from some 
Source derived Zsau-cha; Stimpson, on Seniavine strait, near 
Konyam bay, obtained 7Zsa#-tstz,; the writer, near Plover bay, 
Tsau-ya ; Nordqvist. for the “sedentary” branch on the north 
Coast, Chau-chau, and Shishmareff for the same at Mechigme and 
St. Lawrence bays, Chau-chi, for the term “people,” meaning 
themselves collectively. I am inclined to doubt if the (t should 
Not be more properly 7s, as in many American tribes, for instance, 
Chinook and Chehalis, which we know should be written and pro- 
Nounced Tsinwk and Tsihalis, but which have become per- 
Manently crystallized in the language under the former erroneous 
Spelling, Nevertheless, as no one is better qualified to pronounce 
on this subject than Lieut. Nordqvist, his spelling will be here 
adopted for the people of the Korak race allied closely to the 
Sau-yii, but who live as the Eskimo do, along the shores, and 
Possess no reindeer, but derive their subsistence from the sea. 
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