INDEX 
301 
Kentucky rifles, 42, 52, 53 
Ketoi Island, 205-6 
Killers ( Orca gladiator), 13; attacking 
whales, 227 
Kimberley, Captain, 52, 53, 54 
Kokowa (Japanese fruit), 70 
Komandersky Islands, 203 
Kono, Mr., 98, 99 
Koro-pok-guru, the, 35-6 
Kronotski, Cape, 173 
Kunashir Island, 134, 220, 229; 
animals, 12, 13 ; boiling springs, 3; 
fishing industry, 18 ; population, 18 
Kuril Islands : aborigines, 14 et seq. 
(see also under Ainu); animals, 
12-13; birds, 5, 6-7, 13, 94; 
climate, 8-9, 17, 32, 173 ; dis¬ 
covery by Europeans, 14, 15 ; 
earthquakes, 7; fisheries, 17-18, 
19, 104, 108, 291 ; geography, 1 ; 
hot springs, 3-4 ; inhabitants, 16, 
18, 25; Japanese conquest and 
settlement of, 16 et seq.; Russian 
conquest of northern, 15, 25, 286 ; 
sea-otter hunting in, Chapter III., 
Appendix II., et passim; sub¬ 
marine eruptions, 7-8, 173 ; tides, 
248 ; old villages, 18, 25; vol¬ 
canoes, 1-3, 156, 169, 172-3 
“ Kuroshiwo,” the (current), 8 
“ Lay,” otter-hunting term, 47 
La Perouse Strait, 220, 225 
Lemming, 12 
Leon, schooner, 235 
Leopard seals, 226 
Lion, sea-. See Sea-lion 
Little Kuril Strait, 17, 26, 219, 233, 
241, 252 
Lopatka, Cape, 219, 221 
Low Island, 82 
Luminous cloud off Yetorup Island, 
199 
Lydekker, Mr. R., on sea-otters, 
281-2 
Mairuppu Bay, 222 
Mairuppu village, 25-6 
Makanruru Island, 13 
Makanrushir Island, 148 
Malavenski, Mr., 180 
Mallard, 105 
Matau Island, 2 ; otter-hunters on, 
156-8 
Matsu Bay, 58 
Miller, Captain, 158, 162 
Miller’s Hole, 134 
Mitsubishi Steamship Company, 126-7 
Moccasins, Ainu, 30, 98 
Mochi, Japanese, 93, 97 
Mosquito Bay, 76, 77 
Muroran Harbour, 136 
Muroran Village, 69 
Mushir Rocks, fur-seals on, 13, 200, 
203 
Nagasaki, British Consul in, 193 
“ Naibo Shanty ” Rocks, 142 
Nemo, schooner, 197, 218, 220, 252 
Nemuro, 65, 70, 73, 74, 85, 112, 241, 
242 ; Governor of, 77, 79, 80, 113 ; 
Japanese school in, 127 
New Year festivities on Yetorup 
Island, 97 
Nikolski village, 178, 179, 180, 201 
Nishibets fishing-village, 127 
North Star, schooner, 156, 158 
Novodiskov, Michall, 271 
Okotsk Sea, 1, 8, 160, 204, 221 
“ Old Joe,” hunter and boatswain, 
130, 132, 135, 136-8, 177, 190, 225 
Onebetsu village, 88, 90, 98, 99, 106, 
109 
Onekotan Island, 148, 248 
Ossipe, s.s., affair of the paymaster of, 
208-9 
Otome, schooner, 147, 172 ; arrest of, 
185-6, 190 ; confiscation of, 191-2 
Otsego, schooner, 109 
Otter Island, 114, 116, 141 
Otter, river-, 12 
Otter, sea-, see Sea-otter 
Ottomai Bay, 233, 241, 252 
Otlosei, schooner, 130 
“ Oyashiwo,” the (current), 8, 219 
Paramushir Island, animals, 12-13; 
boatswain’s grave on, 224 - 5 ; 
dangers of coast, 248 ; natives, 173 
Parka (Ainu shirt), 30 
Parkes, Sir Harry, 84, 85 
Patience, Cape, 226 
Pechnel-Loesche on sea-otters, 280-1 
Pelikan, Mr., and Russian sealing 
rights, 190 
Peltries, 26 
Petrels, 7 
Petropaulsky town, 170, 180 et seq. ; 
natives in, 181-2, 183 
Petropaulsky Harbour, 184 
Philippine Islands, 269 
Phillipeus, late Mr., 151 
Pinnacle Rocks, 61, 116, 141, 142, 
143 
Pit-dwellings, Ainu. See Yurts 
Porpoises, 13 
Port Lloyd, 151 
Pratas Island, Japanese hunters at, 
269 
