ANDREJENOWS ALEUTIANS.—SEA-BEAR CIlACE. 5 7 
inariin a small baidar was separated from them, and had not 
been heard of since. 
In a violent wind and a swelling stea, the Aleutians are 
obliged to keep in one station as much as possible, for which 
reason they tie all their baidars in a row to one another ; and 
that they may not be dashed together by the waves, they put 
bladders in the spaces between, and point the head of their 
barks against the weaves until the wind changes. 
The Andrejenow Aleutians are perfectly* similar to those on 
our island, both in appearance and mode of living; having even 
in their language no other visible difference than what was oc¬ 
casionally to be observed in the position of the words and their 
accentuation. The dress of both males and females was per¬ 
fectly alike. The women w'eai* the same ornament in their ears 
and nose, with this single difference, that the bones which the 
former stick in the under lip are much smaller, and the holes 
are pierced wider apart on the side of the mouth. In the 
middle of the cheeks they puncture a little black double circle, 
obliquely over the middle of the forehead a double line, and 
over the nose betw ixt the eye-brows two little crooked stripes. 
In the beginning of October, the Subaltern Chudakow was 
sent out to survey the Aleutian Islands, upon which the Aleutians 
also set off from the Andrejenow islands for Umnak, where 
they intended wintering. 
At the close of this month the Aleutians began the sea- 
bear chace, which continued till November. These animals 
return from the northern to the southern countries, and in their 
course enter the bays of this island, upon which the Aleutians 
pursue them in their baidars. They know pretty accurately the 
spot where they rise up out of the water, and two or three men 
to a bear plant themselves in a convenient position for casting 
their darts at him, as soon as he makes his appearance. Thus 
by repeated wounds w ith their darts every time he rises, they at 
length completely exhaust and cripple him ; but that he may not 
sink immediately on receiving the mortal stab, they affix bladders 
to their darts. He only has a right to the skin of the animal who 
inflicts the first w ound. 
The chace of otters and other aquatic animals is subject to 
similar laws. The first successful darter receives half the skin 
and the entrails, and has besides the right of assigning the other 
half to any one of the hunters he pleases; the second successful 
aim entitles the person to the neck, and the remaining entrails; 
the third takes the bladder; the fourth and fifth can claim the 
fore feet; the fifth and sixth the hind feet. The flesh is shared 
equally among ail the parties concerned. 
At the commencement of the year’s chace, the person to 
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