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more people can fit. They live chiefly 
upon the fifh they call Paltujina, and 
flock-fifh or haddock, which they catch 
in the fea with hooks made of bone. They 
are very dexterous at catching the river 
fifh with their T/birtugs, which are nets 
or bags, that they weave with firings or 
threads. All thefe fifh they eat raw. Be- 
sides thefe, they catch a good quantity of 
beavers, fea-cows, cat-fifh (Suitfchi) and 
dog-fifh; but, on the rivers, otters, brown 
and grey foxes, ermines, bears, and beau- 
tiful fpcckled and tabby mice, called 
Jewrafchki. As to birds, they have on 
this ifland all forts of ftorks, ducks, ravens, 
magpies, &c. but no particular kinds have 
been obferved. The berries that grow 
there in great plenty are, hurts, Schick- 
fas, cranberries, floes, Toloknjanka and 
Sarana. Their woods are chiefly the al- 
der-tree, birch, and feveral forts of 
willows. 
VIII. The ifland of Umanak, which 
had already been difcovered in the for- 
mer 
