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because the cape does not form the northernmost promontory 
either of the whole of Siberia, or of any considerable portion of 
it. For the northernmost point of the mainland of Siberia is 
Cape Chelyuskin, the northernmost in the land east of the Lena 
Svjatoinos, the northernmost in the stretch of coast east of 
Chaun Bay, Cape Chelagskoj, and so on. Cape North ought, 
therefore, to be replaced by the original name Irkaipij, which is 
well known to all the natives between Chaun Bay and Behring’s 
Straits. 
REMAINS OF AN ONKILON HOUSE. 
a. Seen from the side. h. From above. 
(After a drawing by O. Nordquist.) 
On the neck of land which connects Irkaipij with the main¬ 
land, there was at the time of our visit a village consisting of 
sixteen tents. We saw here also ruins, viz. the remains of a large 
number of old house-sites, which belonged to a race called Onkilon} 
who formerly inhabited these regions, and some centuries ago were 
^ Anhali signifies in Cliukcli dwellers on the coast, and is now used to 
denote the Chukches living on the coast. A similar word, Onkilon, was 
formerly used as the name of the Eskimo tribe that lived on the coast 
of the Polar Sea when the Chukch migration reached that point. 
