INDEX 
Abaza, Lieutenant, 188, 189, 190, 
194, 195 
Agamemnon, H.M.S., threatened off 
Yokohama, 197-8 
Ainu, the race, 14; characteristics 
of, 21-2, 35, 68 ; decline of, 21, 22 ; 
its hairiness, 20 ; origin of, 34 
Ainu, Kurilsky, Chapter II., 94, 102, 
105, 255 ; boats, 31-2 ; character¬ 
istics, 21, 27, 29 ; clothing, 19-20, 
29-30 ; customs, 27; food, 29; 
houses, 19, 68 ; Japanese relations 
with, 21-4, 32-3, 173 ; pit-dwellings, 
28; Russian relations with, 25, 26, 
286, 287 ; and sea-otter hunting, 
287, 288, 292-3 ; women 20, 102, 
103-4 
Ainu of Yezo, 19, 20, 27, 68, 69; 
migration to Kuril Islands, 286 
Ainu skeleton scandal, the, 138-40 
Akis 67 
Alaid Island, 2, 224 
Alaska Commercial Company, 178, 
180, 184, 235 
Alaska Peninsula, discovery of, 271-2 
Aleutian Islands, 53, 235, 269; dis¬ 
covery of, 271; yurts on, 36, 37 
Aleuts, 32 ; on Bering Island, 201-3; 
on Kuril Islands, 15, 25, 34; 
methods of otter-hunting, 40 
Alexander, s.s., Russians on, 178, 179, 
190 
Anama Bay, 33, 200, 208, 232 
Animals of Kuril Islands, 12-13 et 
passim 
Arctic, schooner, and paymaster of 
s.s. Ossipe, 208-9 
Aston, Mr. W. G., cited on popula¬ 
tion of Yetorup Island, 24 
Atosa Mountain, 229 
Attoo Island, discoverv of, 271 
Auks, 6, 7, 10, 13 
Avatcha Bay, 184, 185 
Beak Ba.y, 108, 109, 159 
Bears, in Kamchatka, 13, 174, 219, 
221, 224, 249, as fish-eaters, 222 ; 
on Kuril Islands, 12, 13, 63, 105, 
hunting, 63-4 
Bering Island, 39, 170 et seq., 200, 
210 ; foxes on, 176 ; fur-seal 
rookery, 174-5, 201 ; natives, hos¬ 
tility of, 175, 179-80, 210-11 
Bering Sea, 53, 170, 173, 197, 203, 
297 
Bering Strait, 53 
Bidarkis (Aleut boats), 32 
Birds of Kuril Islands, 4, 5, 7, 94 ; 
sea-, 6-7, 13, eggs of, 6, 49 ; in 
Yezo, 67 
Black Brothers Islands, 2, 156 ; new 
land formed at, 2 
Black fish, 13 
Black Rocks, 131 
Blair, Captain, 235 
Blakiston, Captain, 67, 113, 121, 123, 
124 
Boats, Ainu, 31-2 ; used for otter¬ 
hunting, 40-1 
Bonin Islands, 151-3 ; turtles on, 
152-3 
“ Breaching ” of sea-otters, 45,46, 281 
California, sea-otters off, 52 
Capron Mam. Japanese Government 
steamer, 77-80, 108, 293, 294 
Caroline, schooner, 60, 134, 135 
Chamberlain, Professor B. H., on the 
Ainu, 14, 34 
Chinese on hunting-vessels, 244 et 
seq. 
Chirinkotan Island, 2 
Chivostoff, Lieutenant, 25 
“ Clam Bay,” 54 
Climate of Kuril Islands, 8-9 
Cod-fishing, 17-18, 104, 108, 162, 256 
Commander Islands, 269 
