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ceeded, some of the bystanders occasionally suggested alterations, and 
I removed one of the Diomede Islands which was misplaced : this was 
at first objected to by the hydrographer ; but one of the party recol- 
lecting that the islands were seen in one from Cape Prince of Wales 
confirmed its new position, and made the mistake quite evident to the 
others, who seemed much surprised that we should have any knowledge 
of such things. When the mountains and islands were erected, the 
villages and fishing stations were marked by a number of sticks placed 
upright, in imitation of those which are put up on the coast w'herever 
these people fix their abode. In time, w'e had a complete topogra- 
phical plan of the coast from Point Darby to Cape Krusenstern. In this 
extent of coast line they exhibited a harbour and a large river situated 
to the southward of Cape Prince of Wales, of neither of which we had 
any previous knowledge. The harbour communicated with an inner 
basin, named Imau-rook, which was very spacious, and where the water 
was fresh. The entrance to the outer one was so narrow, that two baidars 
could not paddle abreast of each other. This they explained by means 
of two pieces of wood, placed together, and motioning with their hands 
that they were paddling. They then drew them along until they 
came to the channel, when they were obliged to follow one another, and, 
when through, they took up their position, as before. The river was be- 
tween this harbour and the cape, and by their description it wound among 
lofty mountains, and between high rocky cliffs, and extended further 
than any of the party had been able to trace in their baidars. Its name 
was Youp-nut,and its course must lie between the ranges of mountains 
at the back of Cape Prince of Wales. At this last mentioned cape, they 
placed a village, called Iden-noo ; and a little way inland another, named 
King-a-ghee, which was their own winter residence. Beyond Imau-rook 
there was a bay, of which we have no knowledge, named I-art-so-rook. 
A point beyond this, which I took to be the entrance to Norton Sound, 
was the extent of their hydrographical knowledge in that direction. 
To the Diomede Islands they gave the names of Noo-nar-boak, Ig- 
narlook, and Oo-ghe-eyak; King’s Island, Oo-ghe-a-boak ; and Sledge 
Island, Ayak. It is singular that this island, which was named Sledge 
Island by Captain Cook, from the circumstance of one of these imple- 
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XL 
August, 
1826. 
