864 Chukchi and Namollo People of Eastern Siberia. | November, 
Chau-chau, and about the south-west limit of them, at least, there 
is little or no doubt. They are slowly migrating southward along 
the Kamchatkan coast. In 1865, and for many years previously, 
their visits to the Anadyr river mouth were few and far between, 
probably not more than once a year on the average, and they had 
no village there up to 1866. In 1879 a colony had reached Cape 
Oliutorsk (according to Capt. Owen of the steam whaler Mary 
and Helen), and planted themselves and sent word for more to 
follow them as they “ had found a good place.” These migrants 
came from Plover bay, where seal were no longer plenty, and had 
paddled some five hundred miles. 
- The northern limit is more uncertain, Lieut. Nordqvist puts it 
at Cape Chukotsky, which is too far south. On the authority of 
Capts. Redfield and Smith, traders of many years’ experience and 
who understand perfectly the difference between the races, their 
languages and the trading jargon in use by both, I placed it at 
Cape Serdze. . 
The Chau-cha of Mechigme and St. Lawrence bays informed 
Shishmareff, in 1821, that an Eskimo tribe were living on the 
Arctic coast who wore labrets. One old man at St. Lawrence 
bay told how he had traveled to the River Amiluk not far from 
Cape Chavaka (Shelagskoi), from a point beyond Koliuchin 
island, without seeing any people. At the cape and on this river 
were people whom he.called Chavaki, who wore labrets like the 
Americans. At Mechigme bay the same people were alluded vf 
as existing on the Arctic coast, and were called Eg-lit-nok. 
Shishmareff saw at both St. Lawrence and Mechigme bays, P° 
ple of the Yait race; whom the Chau-chit said, lived by them- 
selves along the sea coast, obtaining their living from gene 
kept to themselves, spoke a different language and knew nothing 
about reindeer keeping. Stimpson, in 1856, obtained a regi’ 
pure Innuit vocabulary at Chaklak village in Seniavine strait. 48 
nearly every year from 1870 to 1880, Capt. Owen and other 
whaling masters have obtained Innuit whale fishers from SE Law- 
rence bay, who stayed by the vessel until she left the aa : 
when they were landed at their homes rich with accumulat | 
stores of salted whale meat and “black skin” to keep © 
during the winter. In 1880 Innuit came off to my vessel = 
Cape Chaplin where they have a large village. Their pa 
was almost identical with the Mahlemut of Norton sound. 
