1881.] Chukchi and Namollo People of Eastern Siberia, 865 
of them spoke English well. He said, in response to questions, 
that they had little intercourse with the Chau-chi except in trade, 
that their languages were entirely different, but that they com- 
municated by the trading jargon: that the “ deer men” were 
rich and the “ matsinka men ” ( Ya#-it) were poor. They did not 
intermarry as arule; sometimes an Innuit girl would marry a 
“deer man” chiefly because she would always have plenty to. eat 
and little or nothing to do; but the Ciau-ch@ women never mar- 
ried Yat, “they would have to work too hard and submit to sea- 
sons of semi-starvation.” On the other hand, Cornelius, a native 
of Plover bay belonging to the Eskimo stock, speaking English 
with great fluency and correctness, informed me that his people 
had only a commercial intercourse with the Zsav-y#, that the 
shamans of the former had different practices from their own, and 
that they never intermarried. I asked him what the “deer men” 
called themselves. He said 7sau-yu'-at. But, said I, at Cape Chaplin 
they said Koy-ce’-khit. “Ihave heard many names given to the 
“deer men,’”’ he said, ‘‘ but the only name I have ever heard them 
call themselves is 7sau-yi’-at. The name you say is for making 
fun of them, it is not their own name.” I tried to find out what 
the meaning was, but he evidently was unwilling to explain, and 
it is evidently some contemptuous appellation, such as_ the 
merican Jana@it give the Indians (/n’-ka-4k) which means 
“children of louse eggs.” This Cornelius had lived a number of 
years in the United States, had been in Washington as well as 
New Bedford. The native of Cape Chaplin who boarded me in 
the strait had also spent a winter in San Francisco, and was very 
outspoken in his disgust at the white men who were willing to 
eat turtle, which he had seen at the restaurants, and which he 
described as “ American devil.” Their travels are made as mem- 
bers of the crews of whaleships, where they do efficient duty, but 
I have yet to hear of a Chau-chau who has left his native shores. 
I have shown that Vait (Eskimo) extend to St. Lawrence bay. 
For their extension to East cape, beside the authority of several 
Whalers and traders of great experience, I had a pure Eskimo 
vocabulary, obtained for me at the Nawitkh village on East cape, 
by Capt. Smith, about 1872, which is now in the collection of the 
National Bureau of Ethnology. This, I think, settles the fact of 
the existence of Znnuit at that point as late as 1872, and I see no 
' Feason for doubting that they still exist there. That occasional 
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