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INDEX 
Prevost Peak, 173 
Pribyloff Islands, 197, 269, 297 
Ptarmigan, 224, 256 
Puffin Island, 156, 157 
Puffins, 6, 7, 10, 13 ; use of plumes 
and beaks, 29, 30 
Raikok Islands, 211, 217 ; fur-seals 
on, 13, 211, 212, hunting, 213 et 
seq. 
“ Raising ” otters, 43, 47, 49 
Rashau Island, 3, 8, 156, 218, 242, 
249 ; hunting off, 159 
Reindeer, 221 
Rein, Professor, on bears, 63 
Rifles, otter-hunting, 42-3, 57, 131, 
132 
Robben Island, 171, 204, 226, 229; 
Russian guard on, 246-8 
Rock-cod, 104, 108 
Roko Bay, 10, 12, 130, 131, 145, 153, 
154, 158 
Rookeries, seal. See Fur-seal rookeries 
Russian-American Company, 15, 34 
Russian conquest of northern Kuril 
Islands, 15 
Russian officials, slow procedure of, 
189, 190-1 ; and foreign hunting- 
vessels, 170, 178-9, 180, 185 et seq 
246-8 
Russian raids on Yetorup Island, 16, 
24- 5 
Russian relations with Kurilsky Ainu, 
25- 6, 286-7 
Saghalin Island, Ainu on, 29, 226 ; 
ceded to Russians, 16 ; natives and 
Russian convicts, 226 ; yurts in, 36 
Sake, Japanese, 69, 93, 97, 135 
Salmon, 19, 222, 291 
Sanborn, schooner, 80 
Sandman, Captain, 178 
Sandpiper, spoonbill, 67 
Santa Barbara Islands, 52, 272 
Sasa (bamboo grass), 100 
Sculpins, 104 
Seal, fur-. See Fur-seal 
Seal, hair-, 13 
Seal, leopard-, method of catching, 
226 
Sea-lion, 10 and note, 13, 60, 105 ; 
characteristics, 165, 278, 279 ; as 
food, 29, 279 ; on Srednoy Rocks, 
163, 165 
Sea-otter hunting, Chapter III., Ap¬ 
pendix II., et 'passim ; boats used, 
40-1, 42, 60 ; decline in, 171, 197, 
252, 272, 295-6 ; described by Mr. 
Werner, 114-20, 141-5 ; equipment, 
41, 42-3, 50 ; fatalities, 265-7 ; his¬ 
tory of, 285-97 ; Japanese attitude 
to 88, 123, 220, 243-4, 267-9, 292 
et seq. ; justifiable in forbidden 
waters, 263-5 ; methods of, 40 et 
seq., 61, 281, 282, 288 ; qualifica¬ 
tions, 47 ; rifles used, 42-3, 57, 131, 
132 ; vessels or schooners, 40, 42, 
52, list of, 265-6; weather re¬ 
quired, 41 
Sea-otters, 13, 48, Appendix I. ; 
appearance, 274-6 ; “ breaching,” 
45, 46, 281 ; as food, 29, 62, 279 ; 
habits, 43-5, 46, 48, 54, 60-1, 
142-3, 260-1, 275, 277, 278, 280, 
293 ; haunts, 48, 147, 271-2, 285 ; 
on ice, 105, 109, 219 ; “ pups,” 61, 
142- 3, 277 ; size, 273 ; skins, 
varieties of, 273-4 ; ski nn ing, 
methods of, 282-4 ; white, 149 
Sendai, 58, 128 ; Governor of, 59 
Shags, 3, 7 
Shakotan village, 32-3 
Shana, 24, 25 
Shanghai, 244, 250, 251 
Shiashikotan Island, 17, 147, 148, 
149, 156, 158, 162, 173, 275 
Shikotan Island, 1, 53, 59, 65, 135, 
150, 153, 198, 200; Ainu settle¬ 
ment on, 16, 32-3, 34 
Shipunski, Cape, 186, 197 
Shumshir Island, 1, 16, 219 ; Ainu 
natives on, 28, 162 ; animals, 12-13 ; 
fishing, 162, 222 ; Japanese settle¬ 
ment on, 254 ; Russian buildings 
on, 25-6 ; old villages, 17, 18 
Siebold, on bears, 13, 63 
Simushir Island, 2, 156, 169, 172-3 
Skate, 108 
Skinning sea-otters, methods of, 282-4 
Skins, sea-otter, value of, 151, 273, 
288 
Skobeleff, Russian flagship, 180, 187, 
195 ' 
Snowdrop, schooner, 73, 82-3, 86 et 
seq. ; loss of, 294 
Snow-shoes, Ainu, 98-9, 100 
South-East or “ S.E.” Bay, 54, 150, 
153, 158 
Spanberg Island ( alias Shikotan), 53 
Srednoy Rocks, 7, 13, 163, 225; 
hunting on, 163-6, 167, 203 
Stadukin, Taras, 15 
“Stake,” the, 10, 11, 154 
“ Standing ” of sea-otters, 43,54, 260 
Steller, on sea-otters, 39, 278, 279, 
280 
Storms off Kuril Islands, 82-4, 88-9, 
143- 5, 206-7, et passim 
Submarine eruptions, 7-8, 161, 173, 
205 
