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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA, 
[chap. 
or to express it otherwise, which unites the Chukch peninsula 
to the mainland of Siberia. 
Many mistakes in comprehending the accounts of old travels 
to these regions have arisen from our ignorance of the great 
southern extension of Kolyutschin Bay, and from the same 
name being frequently used to distinguish different places on 
the coasts of Siberia. Thus we find on the map by A. Arkow- 
SMITH annexed to Sauer s account of Billings’ travels a Serdze 
Kamen on the south side of Chukch peninsula, and it was 
perhaps just this Serdze Kamen, known and so named by the 
dwellers on the Anadyr, that is mentioned in Muller’s account 
of Paulutski’s campaign. 
On the Paulutski returned to Anadyrsk, crowned with 
victory indeed, but without having brought his adversaries to 
lasting submission. No new attempt was made to induce the 
Chukches to submit, perhaps because Paulutski’s campaign had 
rendered it evident that it was easier to win victories over the 
Chukches than to subdue them, and that the whole treasures of 
walrus tusks and skins belonging to the tribe would scarcely 
suffice to pay the expenses of the most inconsiderable 
campaign. 
Perhaps too the accounts of Paulutski’s victories may not 
be quite correct, at least the old repute of Chukches as 
a brave and savage race remained undiminished. Thus we 
read in a note already quoted at page 110 of the Histoire 
g4n4alogique des Tartar^8: ^ “ The north-eastern part of Asia is 
inhabited by two allied races, TzuMzchi and Tzchalatzhi, and 
south of them on the Eastern Ocean by a third, called Olutorshi. 
They are the most savage tribe in the whole north of Asia, and 
1 The work is a translation made at Tobolsk by Swedish officers, 
prisoners of war from the battle of Pultava, from a Tartar manuscript by 
Abulgasi Bayadur Chan. The original manuscript (?) is in the library at 
Upsala, to which it was presented in 1722 by Lieutenant-Colonel. Schon- 
strom. The translation has notes by Bentinck, a Dutchman by birth, who 
was also taken prisoner in the Swedish service at Pultava. 
