862 Chukchi and Namollo People of Eastern Siberia. [November, 
CHAU-CHAU. 
Chau-chau, Nordqvist 1. c. (north coast). 
Chau-chi, Shishmareff 1. c. (St. Lawrence and ing bays). 
Sedentary or Fishing Chukchis of authors, in part o 
Namollos, Pritchard and other authors, in part. 
Ciwkct of Lieut. Bove, 
These people, according to Nordqvist, live along the Arctic 
coast from Cape Shelagskoi to East cape, and are of the only 
race represented by living inhabitants on that stretch of coast. 
So far as the accounts yet published extend, their mode of life, 
manners, customs (except some of those relating to religious 
matters), dwellings and implements, differ in no distinguishable 
manner from those of the Eskimo of Plover bay or the Asiatic 
shore of Behring sea. The full account which Lieut. Nordqvist 
will doubtless publish in time, may afford some discriminating 
features. 
In regard to the people at and south-west from East cape 
Lieut. Nordqvist seems to be in some doubt as to their exact 
status, while maintaining, so far as we learn from Stein, a certain 
reserve on this point, he nevertheless is represented as asserting 
that they are not Eskimo and that these Eskimo do not occut 
north of Cape Chukotsky, but reside chiefly about the Gulf of 
Anadyr. On the other hand he seems to hold that these people 
on the west coast of Behring strait are composed of a hybrid 
mixture of Chau-chau and Eskimo blood which is not recognized 
as their own race by the former, at least not by such as dwell on 
the Arctic coast. 
The synonymy of the Eskimo tribe or race found on the 
Asiatic shore is the most complicated of all: | 
Yu-IT. ; 
Yuit ate their own name for themselves, a corruption or shortening of Jay : 
niitt, the universal name of the Eskimo stock except of the Aleut. 
Namolio - Pritchart and other older writers, 
Tchouktchi Asiatigues, Balbi, Atlas Ethn. : ication 
Tushi, moe er, Markham and Dall, |. c. provisionally. Perhaps a ™ms@ tal 
and corruption of This jos which belongs to the Zsau-ya# race. 
Chab'chi Bastia spelled) of nah es authors, erroneously. ‘tocal 
Chaklak’ mut, Stimpson MSS., Dall, 1. c. This is a local name of the qaacger : 
population of Chaklik oo (Ittygrane or aay Said of Rodgers 1870 
Seniavine strait, and has been so used by me; cf. Contr. Ethn., 1, P- Mes 
only). od 
? Onkilon, Wrangell Journey . the Polar sea. This is, according to Nea a 
aidel, a corruption o: ae = es 
