INDEX.
- A
- Adahk, island of, [183]
- Aggatoo, island of, [179]
- Agricultural features in Sitkan region, [18], [22], [24], [25], [35]
- in Kadiak region, [103], [106], [107]
- in Cook’s Inlet region, [83], [84], [85], [86]
- in Aleutian region, [184], [185]
- in Seal Islands, [204]
- in Yukon Valley and the North, [421], [443]
- Agents of the United States Government, [251], [252]
- Akootan, island of, [151], [153]
- volcano of, [153]
- Akoon, island of, [150], [154]
- wolves on, [156]
- Alaska, its area and population, [13], [14]
- its discovery, [1], [2], [3], [5]
- its purchase by United States Government, [11], [12]
- Alaska Commercial Company, its history, [224], [245], [247], [248], [249]
- Albinos and monstrosities, few among fur-seals, [306]
- Alexander Archipelago, its land and scenery, [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [26], [271]
- its earliest white occupation, [28], [29], [30]
- all visitors necessarily go there, [14], [15]
- Alexandrovsk, established by Kolmakov (1834), [375], [376]
- Aleutes, traits, characteristics of, [163], [164], [165], [166], [167], [168], [169], [170], [171], [172], [173], [174]
- Algæ, or sea-weeds, those of Sitkan waters, [20]
- those of Aleutian waters, [182]
- those of Pribylov waters, [214], [215]
- American traders, business relations of Baranov with, [28]
- business methods in Sitkan region, [36], [37], [38], [39]
- business methods in Aleutian region, [129], [191]
- business methods in Yukon and Kuskokvim regions, [384], [414], [418], [424]
- business methods in Arctic Ocean, [425]
- Amchitka, island of, [181], [184]
- Amlia, island of, [182]
- Animals, fur-bearing and food, in the Sitkan region, [55], [61], [62]
- in the Cook’s Inlet region, [91]
- in the Aleutian region, [151], [156], [163], [178]
- in the Nooshagak region, [381], [382], [399]
- in the Kuskokvim region, [381], [382], [399]
- in the Yukon and Arctic region, [418], [425], [426], [440]
- Area and extent of Alaska, [13], [14]
- Arrie egg-shells, their toughness, [222]
- Atkha, island and natives of, [144], [180], [181], [182], [183]
- Attitudes and land postures of fur-seals, [280]
- Attoo, extreme western land of North American continent, [143], [179], [180]
- Auroral and nephelogical phenomena, [158], [198], [420]
- Autocratic powers of the old Russian American Company, [9]
- Avatanak, island of, [154]
- B
- Bachelor, or “holluschiokie” fur-seals, [294], [295], [296], [297]
- Baird, Professor S. F., [190]
- Banks, codfishing, [122], [123], [124]
- Baranov, Alexander, character of, [6], [28]
- Barrabkie, a, how it is made, [135], [166], [167]
- Basking sharks and killer-whales, [325], [327]
- Bath, Innuit, vile methods, [387]
- Barrow, Point, [440]
- Battles of the fur-seals, [265], [266]
- Bays indenting coast of Kadiak, [115], [116]
- of Oonalashka, [159]
- Bear “Roads,” [89]
- Beaver Bay, Oonalashka Island, [176]
- Bering’s expedition of Alaskan discovery, [1], [2], [3]
- the discovery of Alaska, [2], [3]
- the ill-fated homeward voyage, [3], [4], [124]
- the shipwreck and escape of survivors, [4], [191]
- Bering Straits, [428], [429], [430], [431], [441]
- Belcovsky, village of, [119], [120]
- Bidarrah, use of, how it is made, [346], [347], [453], [454]
- Bidarka, use of, how it is made, [133]
- Birth of fur-seals, [282]
- Bishop Innocent Veniaminov, his labors, [309]
- Blubber of fur-seal, sea-lion, mahklok, and beluga, [292], [345], [405]
- Bogaslov Islet, volcanic eruption of, recently, [186], [167]
- Borka, village of, [176], [177]
- Bristol Bay, [118], [398]
- Breeding grounds, number of fur-seals on, [310], [311], [312], [313], [314], [315], [316], [317], [319], [320], [321]
- of sea-lions, [187], [310], [354], [356], [357], [358], [361]
- of hair-seals, [256]
- of sea-otters, [132]
- of water-fowl, [210], [211]
- Burials and funerals of the Sitkans or Thlinkets, [50]
- of the Innuits or Eskimo, [389], [410]
- of the Aleutes, [178]
- Burnt or Brulé districts, [408], [409]
- C
- Camps, Innuit summer, [381], [426]
- Kenaitze hunting, [91]
- Canoes, Sitkan, [62], [63]
- Ingaleek, [417]
- Carousals, Aleutian beer orgies, [137], [174], [175]
- Carving bone and ivory, skill of Innuits, [384]
- wood, skill of Haidahs, [49]
- Cape Prince of Wales, [428], [429], [431]
- Capture of sea-otters, [128], [191], [133]
- of sea-lions, [364], [365]
- Carcasses of slaughtered fur-seals, [350], [351], [352], [353]
- Cassiar Gold-diggings, [17], [18], [25]
- Cattle in Alaska, [86], [106], [107], [178], [184]
- Cereals, total failure in Alaska, [107]
- Chernaboor islets, [138], [141]
- Christianity among the Aleutes and Kadiakers, [115], [116], [171], [172], [241], [246]
- among the Innuits, [410]
- among the Thlinkets, [40], [41], [42]
- Church, Greek, [40], [41], [120], [121], [137], [164], [174], [178], [241], [388]
- Clans, the several Sitkan tribes, [43]
- Climate of the Sitkan region, [24]
- of the Mount St. Elias region, [72], [77]
- of the Cook’s Inlet region, [93]
- of the Kadiak region (see Cook’s Inlet)
- of the Aleutian Islands, [158], [185]
- of the Pribylov Islands, [194], [195], [196], [197]
- of the Nooshagak region, [382], [404]
- of the Kuskokvim region, [382], [404], [407]
- of Michaelovsky and the Yukon, [421], [422], [424]
- of Arctic coast of Alaska, [427]
- Coal in Cook’s Inlet, [125]
- in the Arctic, [125], [438]
- in Shoomagin Group, [125]
- in Sitkan region, [70], [71]
- Coins, Russian names and values of, [8]
- Codfish, industry of, at Oonga, [122], [123], [124]
- Companies, rival trading, [191]
- Consumption, chief cause of death-rate among natives, [110]
- Cook’s Inlet, characteristics of, [82], [83], [84], [85], [86], [87]
- country north of, [87]
- Copper River, its character, [76], [77]
- Cossacks, Russian and Siberian, [128], [159]
- Courage of fur-seals, [279]
- Creoles, what they are, [108]
- Crillon, Mount, [72]
- Cruelties inflicted by Russian traders upon natives, [6], [128], [147], [159]
- Curing and dressing fur-seal skins, [345], [346], [347], [348], [349]
- D
- Dangers of Alaskan coast navigation, [76], [83], [117], [123], [218], [219], [374], [375], [395], [440], [442]
- to which young fur-seals are exposed, [283], [329], [330]
- Death, natural, of fur-seals, [307]
- Decay of the Russian American Company after Baranov’s removal, [11]
- Deer, Sitkan, [55], [62]
- Rein, [121], [122], [397], [418]
- Definition of technical terms on Seal Islands, [320], [321]
- Delta of the Copper River, [75], [77]
- of the Yukon River, [414], [415]
- Deschnev, Simeon, his remarkable voyage (1648), [429]
- Diet of natives of the Sitkan region, [58]
- of the Cook’s Inlet region, [95]
- of the Kadiak region, [136], [137]
- of the Aleutian region, [168]
- of the Seal Islands, [241], [242], [243]
- of the Innuits, [382], [383], [454], [455], [456]
- Diomedes, islands of, Bering Straits, [430], [431], [432], [441]
- Diseases, natives most afflicted with, [110], [111], [112], [113], [114], [238]
- Docility of fur-seals when driven, and being killed, [335]
- Dogs, Eskimo, [388]
- Sitkan, [61]
- none on the Aleutian Chain, [158]
- Dressing fur-seal skins, [348], [349]
- Driving fur-seals, [333], [334], [336]
- sea-lions, [366], [367], [368]
- Dwellings of the Aleutes, [133], [166], [167]
- of the Innuits, [378], [379], [380], [381], [426]
- of the Cook’s Inlet Kenaitze, [91], [92], [93]
- of the Sitkans or Thlinkets, [46], [47], [48], [49], [51], [60], [64]
- of the Seal Islanders, [232], [233]
- of the white fur-traders, [36], [175]
- E
- Earthquakes, [146], [147], [148], [161], [186], [189]
- Eggs, water-fowl, gastronomic value of, [211]
- Epidemic among seals, [324]
- Employés, superannuated “old colonial settlers,” [85], [86]
- Eskimo of Alaska (see Innuits)
- Experiments with fur-seals, [263], [264]
- Extermination of fur-seals, [231], [307], [308], [309], [324]
- of sea-otters, [129]
- of walrus, [458], [459]
- Extent and area of Alaska, [13], [14]
- Eyes of fur-seals, beauty of, [291]
- of fur-seals, lurid lights in, [341]
- of sea-lion, ferocity of, [355]
- of walrus, grotesqueness of, [449]
- F
- Fairweather, Mount, [71], [72]
- Familiar flowering plants on the Seal Islands, [200], [201], [202], [203]
- on the Arctic coast of Alaska, [440]
- Fasting, long-protracted, of male fur-seals, [272], [273]
- Festivals, native Innuit, [390], [391], [392], [393], [423]
- First school in Alaska, [102]
- First mission in Alaska, [102]
- Fishing industries of the Sitkans, [59]
- of the Aleutes, [168]
- of the Shoomagin Islands, [122], [123], [124]
- of the Kuskokvim and Yukon, [404]
- of the Arctic, [434], [435]
- of Americans at Cook’s Inlet, [93]
- of Americans at Kadiak Island, [115], [116]
- Flowers, wild, great abundance of, [177], [420]
- Forest trees of Alaska, [21], [22], [79], [85], [103], [104], [105], [157], [408], [409], [416], [424]
- Forests of Alaska, [21], [71], [408], [409]
- Foxes, blue (Vulpes lagopus), [180], [205], [206]
- red, [180], [206]
- Four Peaks, or “Cheetiery Sopochnie,” [186]
- Fruits indigenous to Sitkan district, [22], [23]
- indigenous to Aleutian district, [168]
- indigenous to Kuskokvim district, [411]
- indigenous to Seal Islands, [201]
- Fur-seal, arrival of at breeding grounds, [292], [293-297]
- boldness of, [129], [331]
- description of adult male, [258], [259], [260], [261]
- description of adult female, [273], [274], [275], [276]
- description of “pups,” [282], [283], [284], [285], [286], [287], [288], [289]
- odor and noise of, [265], [270], [281]
- erroneous ideas of its skin, [347], [348]
- effect of warm weather on, [306]
- first arrival at the islands, [262]
- food of, [328], [329]
- healthiness of, [324]
- high order of instinct of, [258], [301]
- numbers of, [310-313], [324], [326]
- increase or diminution or, [317], [318], [328], [333]
- in the waters around the islands, [286], [299], [300], [302], [331], [361]
- manner of killing and skinning, [337], [338], [339], [340], [341], [342]
- manner of salting, dressing, and shipping skins of, [345-349]
- meat of, [344]
- method of land travel, [260]
- natural enemies of, [325], [327], [330]
- noise on the breeding rookeries, [270], [271]
- movements on land and in water, [286], [289], [298], [362]
- pelagic range of, in search of food, [329], [330]
- “podding” of its “pups,” [289]
- polygamous and angry males, [275], [276], [277], [278]
- position and selection of hauling-grounds, [295], [296]
- power of land locomotion, [267]
- pre-emption of rookeries, [265], [276]
- prostration of, by heat or driving, [271], [272]
- range of vision of, [291]
- relative growth and weight of, [304], [305]
- sanguinary combats of, [265], [266]
- shedding of hair and fur, [285], [290], [302], [303]
- sleep of, [280], [281]
- sleep on land of, [280], [281]
- skill in selecting rookeries, [277]
- strength and courage of the male, [265], [267]
- tabulated result of surveys, [312]
- vitality of, [283], [323]
- voice of, [268], [269], [270]
- G
- Games, festivals, etc., of the Aleutes, [239], [240], [241]
- of the Innuits, [393], [423]
- of the Thlinkets or Sitkans, [65]
- Glaciers of the Aleutian Islands, [183]
- of Cook’s Inlet, [84]
- of Prince William Sound, [78]
- of the Sitkan Archipelago and Cross Sound, [19], [20]
- of Mount St. Elias region, [75]
- of Copper River region, [76]
- easy approach to Grand, Icy Bay, [19], [20]
- Gold-bearing quartz, Sitkan Archipelago, [69], [70]
- Cook’s Inlet, [96], [97]
- Golovin Bay, Norton’s Sound, mines in, [424]
- Goreloi, island of, [183], [184]
- Government, civil laws, etc., for Alaska, [42]
- Greek Church, in Alaska, [40], [41], [120], [121], [137], [164], [174], [178], [388]
- Guano, accumulation prevented, [221]
- H
- Haidah Indians, best savages of the Sitkan region, [44]
- house, or “rancherie,” [46], [47], [48], [49], [51]
- Hair-seal, description of, [255], [256], [257], [332]
- picture of Phoca-fœtida, [441]
- picture of E. barbatus, [383]
- Halibut, Sitkan natives fishing for, [55], [63]
- Aleutes fishing for, [212], [213]
- Hauling grounds, selection of, by fur-seals, [294], [295], [296]
- Hogs, [108], [208]
- Hot springs, near Sitka, [68]
- Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, [122], [183], [184]
- Homeward voyage and shipwreck of Bering, [3], [4]
- Human protection of fur-seals, [373]
- Hunting sea-otter, [127], [128], [129], [133], [134], [135], [136], [137], [138], [139], [140], [141], [142], [143], [144]
- Hutchinson, H.M., his labors, [247], [248]
- I
- Ice Company, San Francisco, [105]
- Icy Bay, grand glacier in, [19], [20]
- Ilyamna, volcano of, [87]
- lake, [396]
- Implements, agricultural, manufacture of, at Sitka, [33]
- Indians of the Sitkan region, [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [51], [52], [53], [54], [59], [60], [64], [65]
- Ingaleek, or Interior Indians of Alaska, [408], [417], [418]
- Innuits, or Eskimo, characteristics of, [376], [377], [378], [379], [380], [381], [382], [383], [384], [385], [386], [387], [388], [389], [390], [391], [392], [393], [394], [411], [426], [431], [432], [437], [456], [457], [458]
- Intoxication among Alaskan natives, [66], [137], [174], [175], [235]
- J
- Japanese and Aleutian facial resemblance, [163]
- Jumping out of water by fur-seals, [300], [301]
- Juneau, gold mining at, [69]
- Juvenal, tragic death of Father, [396], [397]
- K
- Kadiak, the island of, [98], [99], [103]
- sheep raising, [107]
- old colonial citizens of, [104]
- sea-otter hunting by natives of, [116]
- old ship-building industry, [105], [106]
- Ice Company of San Francisco, [105]
- timber line drawn upon, [103]
- wars of early Russian traders, [102], [103]
- visit, and establishment of Shellikov, [99], [100], [101], [102]
- Kanaga, island of, [181], [183]
- Kaniags, natives of Kadiak, [109], [110]
- Kamlayka, the water-proof, [371]
- Kashga, the Innuit, [385], [386], [387]
- Kenai Peninsula, [84], [85], [86]
- Kenaitze Indians, habits and appearance of, [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [93]
- queer architecture of, [92]
- Killer whales, their ferocity, [325], [327], [330]
- Killing grounds, Seal Islands, [337], [338], [339], [340], [341]
- Killing sea-lions, method of natives, [368], [369]
- Kings Island, or Ookivok, [425], [426]
- Kotzebue Sound, characteristics of, [432], [433], [434]
- Kolmakovsky, trading-post of, [406]
- Krenitzin Group of Islands, [148]
- Kuskokvim region, characteristics of, [402], [403], [404], [405]
- density of population of, [403], [404]
- commercial poverty of it, [407], [408]
- prevalence of mosquitoes in it, [405], [406]
- L
- Land and scenery of the Sitkan region, [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [26], [27]
- of the Mount St. Elias region, [71], [72], [73], [74], [75]
- of the Cook’s Inlet, [82], [83], [84], [85], [86]
- of the Kadiak district, [98], [99], [100], [103], [104], [105], [106], [117]
- of the Aleutian district, [148], [149], [150], [152], [153], [154], [155], [156], [157], [162], [163]
- of the Pribylov Islands, [215], [226], [227]
- of the Nooshagak region, [374], [375], [376], [395]
- of the Kuskokvim region, [395], [403], [404], [405], [406], [407]
- of the Yukon region, [395]
- of the Bering Sea Islands, [425], [426], [427], [430], [442], [443], [461], [462]
- of the Alaskan Arctic region, [424], [425], [434], [436], [437], [438], [439], [440]
- Law, natural, obeyed among the fur-seals, [310]
- protecting the seal islands, [250]
- Lead, ore of, miner’s prospecting for, [424]
- Lease of the Seal Islands, [250]
- M
- Mackerel, Atkhan, or “yellow-fish,” [181], [182]
- Mahklok, big hair-seal (Erignathus), [382], [383]
- Makooshin, volcano of, [160], [161]
- Mammoth and mastodon, fossil remains of, [424], [434]
- Massacre of Baranov’s Sitkan garrison (1801), [28]
- of Drooshinnin’s party, [159]
- of Seribniekov’s party, [76]
- by Glottov, of Oonalaskhan natives, [160]
- by Glottov, of Four Mountain natives, [186]
- Measles and typhoid-pneumonia in, [64], [112], [113]
- Medicines and pathology of Alaskan savages, [112]
- Michaelovsky, trading-post of, [413], [419]
- Mirage, the Arctic, [421]
- Missionaries, Russian, labors of, [99], [106], [121], [388]
- Moose, hunting of, [407]
- Morgan, Captain E., labors of, [247], [248]
- Morserovia, village of, [121]
- Morse (see Walrus)
- Mosses, Alaskan, [22], [38], [149], [155], [163], [200], [318], [398], [403], [420], [442], [462]
- Mosquitoes, curse of Alaska, [405], [406]
- none on Seal Islands, [204]
- Mummies, Aleutian, [186]
- Mushrooms, on the Seal Island, [203], [204]
- Musk-ox not found in Alaska, [418]
- Mutilation of female fur-seals, [276]
- N
- Nephelogical and auroral phenomena, [158], [198], [420]
- Niebaum, Captain G., labors of, [247]
- Nikolsky, village of, [184]
- Nooshagak region and village of, [374], [375], [376], [398]
- Nomenclature of fur-seal rookeries, [320]
- Norton Sound, [424]
- O
- Occupation of Alaska by Americans (1867), [12]
- of Alaska by Russians (1745-63), [128]
- of the Seal Islands by Russians (1786), [192], [193]
- of the Seal Islands by Americans (1868), [247], [248]
- Odor from the killing grounds, [350], [351]
- from the fur-seal blubber, [292], [372]
- Oil, fur-seal and sea-lion, [372]
- oolachan grease, [57]
- herring, [57]
- beluga and mahklok, [405]
- coal, use of by Aleutes, [167]
- “Old colonial settlers,” [85], [86]
- Ommaney, Cape, [27]
- Oomnak, island of, [184], [185]
- Oonalashka, village and island of, [139], [156], [157], [158]
- Oonimak, island of, [145], [146], [147]
- Oonga, village and fisheries, [122], [123], [124]
- Ookamok, island and penal settlement on, [116], [117]
- Ookivok, island and village of, [425], [426]
- Oogashik, village of, [119]
- Oonalga, island of, [155]
- Oogalgan, island of, [155]
- Oogamok, island of, [148]
- Otter Island, or “Bobrovia,” [219]
- Otter, sea, hunting, [120], [179]
- a description of it, [130], [131], [132]
- P
- Parka, the Innuit garment, [377], [378], [410], [411]
- Pelagic fur sealing, [452], [453]
- Peninsula of Alaska, [82], [117], [118]
- Penal settlement, R. A. Co. on Ookamok, [116], [117]
- Pneumonia, typhoid, scourge of, recently, [112], [113]
- Pogromnia Sopka, volcano of, [146]
- Polar bears, on the Seal Islands, [194], [464]
- on St. Matthew’s Island, [463], [464]
- Poonook, islets and village of, [444]
- Population of Alaska, [13], [14]
- Poultry kept in Alaska, [107], [185]
- Port Clarence, description of, [427], [428]
- Potatoes, how cultivated, and where, [60], [61], [106], [421]
- Powers and privileges of old Russian Company, [9], [10], [11]
- Pribylov, Gerassim, the discoverer of the Seal Islands, [191], [192], [323]
- Pribylov Islands, agriculture on, [204]
- algæ of the, [214], [215]
- animals and birds, [208], [209], [210], [211], [213], [214], [223], [224]
- churches and schools, [241], [246]
- climate and winds, [194], [195], [196], [197]
- colonization, [193], [230], [231]
- creature-comforts of natives now, [232], [233]
- description of natives of, [235], [236], [237], [238], [239]
- dimensions and contour of, [215], [226], [227]
- disappearance of seals and birds in winter, [305], [306], [327]
- discussion of seal life, [255], [258], [292], [293], [294]
- eligibility of, [229], [230]
- flowering plants, etc., of, [200], [201], [202], [203]
- fogs and mists of, [194], [195], [306]
- gastronomic value of water-fowl eggs, [211]
- general business methods of sealing, [234], [237], [245], [246], [252]
- geographical position of, [194]
- geological structure of, [199], [215], [216], [217], [224], [225], [227], [228]
- grand total of fur-seals on, [312]
- isolation of rookeries on, [191], [193], [194]
- insects of, [204]
- lack of harbors in the, [217], [218]
- land animals of the, [205], [206], [207]
- peculiar advantages of, to fur-seals, [194], [195], [230]
- Pribylov Islands, peculiar cats on the, [207]
- polar bears on the, [194], [464]
- poultry kept on the, [208]
- remarks on walrus of the, [255], [332]
- Russian slaughter on, [316]
- scarcity of fish around the, [212]
- status of early colonists, [231], [232]
- sheep, on the rookeries, [270]
- stock-raising on the, [207], [208]
- vast numbers of water-fowl on the, [220], [221], [222]
- Veniaminov’s account of the, [194], [200]
- vigilance of the natives, [253]
- weight, growth, etc., of fur-seals on the 278, [279], [304], [305]
- Prince Frederick Sound, its awful scenic grandeur, [23]
- Prince William Sound, its gloomy scenic character, [78]
- Prince of Wales Island, [15], [99]
- Prostration of natives in sunshine, [197]
- of fur-seals, when driven, [336]
- Protection of fur-seals, [326], [327], [332], [373]
- Pups, fur-seal, description of, [282], [283], [284], [285], [286], [287]
- learning to swim, [287], [288], [289]
- Q
- Quartz mines near Sitka, [69], [70]
- on Douglas Island, [70]
- R
- Reindeer, [121], [122], [397], [418]
- marked difference from that of Siberia, [397], [398]
- Rocks of St. Matthew’s Island, beauty of, [463]
- Rookeries, Pribylov Islands, [292], [293], [294], [310], [311], [312]
- Resurrection Bay, first Alaskan shipyard there, [79]
- Russian-American Company, its history, [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [103]
- Russian coins, their names and value, [8]
- exploration and traders, bad record of, [4], [5], [6]
- rival companies (1745-1786), [191]
- seal islands, Bering and Copper, [327], [373]
- Governors living at Sitka, [34]
- Russians, as they lived at Sitka, [32], [33]
- S
- Saanak, great sea-otter camp of, [138], [141], [142]
- Saint Elias, Mount, [73]
- George Village, Pribylov Group, [352]
- Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, [442], [443]
- Matthew’s Island, Bering Sea, [461], [462], [463]
- Michaels, post of, [413], [419]
- Saint Nicholas, redoubt, Kenai, [84]
- Paul Village, Pribylov Group, [352]
- Salmon in the Sitkan region, [56]
- in Cook’s Inlet, Sitkan region, [87], [94], [95], [96]
- in the Kadiak district, [115], [116]
- in the Aleutian district, [168], [185]
- in the Nooshagak district, [398], [399], [400]
- in the Kuskokvim district, [404]
- in the Yukon district, [417], [418]
- in the Alaskan Arctic, [434], [435]
- Salt House, work in, at Saint Paul, [345], [346]
- Semeisopochnoi, islands of, [181]
- Schools, [120], [173]
- Scrofula, virulence of, among Alaskan natives, [111]
- Sea-cow, Rhytina stelleri, [4]
- Seal (see Fur-seal, Hair-seal)
- Seal Islands (see Pribylov Islands)
- Seal and walrus hunting, Innuit, [400], [426], [440], [441], [460], [461]
- Sea-otter, a description of it, [130], [131], [132]
- early Russian hunt for, [128], [191]
- native hunters of, [133], [134], [135], [136], [137], [138], [139], [179], [181]
- Sea-lions, arrival at breeding grounds, [357]
- Eumetopias stelleri, adult males, [354], [355], [356], [357]
- Eumetopias stelleri, adult females, [357]
- description of a fight between rivals, [355], [356]
- general uses of, to natives, [363], [369]
- natives driving the, [364], [365], [366], [367]
- manner of capture of, [364], [365]
- manner of penning or coralling, [365]
- manner of killing them on St. Paul, [368], [369]
- meat, good quality of, [372]
- sites of their abandoned rookeries, [321], [322]
- St. George, the last resort for, [362], [363]
- shedding hair, [360]
- shyness and relative cowardice, [332], [356]
- Shamans, their services, [50], [112]
- Sheep, trial, and failure to raise in Alaska, [107]
- Shellikov, Grigoria, his labors, [99], [100], [101], [102]
- Shipbuilding in Alaska, [79], [80], [105], [106]
- Shipyard at Sitka, [32]
- Shishaldin, beautiful volcano of, [146]
- Shoomagin Islands, [122], [123], [124], [125], [126]
- Siberian coast, Bering Straits’ shore, [429]
- Sitka, its history, [27], [29], [30], [31], [32]
- as it is to-day, [33], [34], [35]
- Small-pox, epidemic of, [64], [113], [421]
- Soil and climate, not favorable to agriculture (see Agriculture)
- Special Agents of the Treasury Department, [251], [252]
- Sports and pastimes of the natives, [65], [175]
- of the young fur-seals, [298], [299], [300]
- Steamers, trading, on the Yukon, [414]
- Steller, George W., his labors, [189]
- Stench arising from fur-seal carcasses, [350], [351]
- from decaying salmon and its roe, [57], [399]
- Superstitions of the natives, [80], [81], [90]
- Surveys of the fur-seal breeding grounds, [310], [311], [312]
- Swans, capture of, [399]
- Swimming feats of fur-seals, [300], [301], [302]
- T
- Tanaga, island of, [181], [183]
- Telegraph, Collins Overland, [427], [428]
- Thlinkets, or Sitkan Archipelago Indians, [43], [44], [45], [52], [53], [54], [59], [60]
- Tidal phenomena of Cook’s Inlet, [83], [87]
- of Bristol Bay, [374], [375]
- of Kuskokvim River, [400]
- uncertainties in Bering Sea, [197], [198]
- Tigalda, island of, [154], [155]
- Timber of Alexander Archipelago, [21], [22], [71]
- of Mount St. Elias region, [72], [77]
- of Cook’s Inlet region, [85]
- of Kadiak District region, [103], [104], [105]
- of Aleutian District region, [157]
- of Alaskan Interior region, [395], [408], [409], [416]
- of Alaskan Arctic region, [425], [439], [443]
- Tinneh, or Ingaleeks of Alaska, [408]
- Timidity and shyness of pinnipeds at sea, [331]
- Togiaks, Quaker-like Innuits, [401], [402]
- Treasury Department, its control of Seal Islands, [250], [251], [252]
- Totem and totemic posts, [49]
- Transfer of Alaska, cause why so done, [11], [12]
- Traffic by traders in the Sitkan region, [36], [37], [38], [39]
- in the Kadiak region, [119], [120], [129]
- in the Aleutian region, [129], [191]
- in the Yukon, Nooshagak, and Kuskokvim region, [384], [414], [418]
- in the Bering Sea and the Arctic, [425]
- Treadwell Gold-mining Stamp Mill, [69], [71]
- Tusks of the Walrus, [450], [451]
- U
- Ugiak, Eskimo sea-god, [393], [423]
- Uses of sea-lion skins in making boats, [370], [371]
- of walrus-skins in making boats, [454]
- of walrus-teeth, [404]
- V
- Veniaminov, the distinguished Russian priest, [37], [309]
- Volcanic region of Cook’s Inlet, [87]
- region of Oonimak, [146], [147], [148]
- region of Atkha, [183]
- region of Oomnak, [161]
- Volcanic elevation of Bogaslov Islet recently, [186], [187]
- Voyage of Captain Cook (1778), [83], [176], [430]
- of Veit Bering (1741), [1], [2], [3], [4], [73], [74]
- of Tscherikov (1741), [1], [73], [74]
- of Shellikov (1782-84), [99], [100], [102]
- of Simeon Deschnev (1648), [429]
- W
- Walker, Lake, [399], [400]
- Walrus, a description of, [444], [445], [446], [447], [449]
- in Bristol Bay, [399]
- alarm when approached in boats, [332]
- in Arctic, [425], [444]
- Walrus Islet, a description of, [220], [444], [445]
- visit to, gathering eggs, [210], [220], [221], [222], [223]
- Walrus and seal-hunting and hunters, [400], [426], [440], [441], [460], [461]
- Wars of the Thlinkets, [44]
- of the Innuits, [417]
- of the Russian traders, [6], [29], [30], [101]
- Water-craft of the Sitkans, [62], [63]
- of the Aleutes, [33]
- of the Ingaleeks, [417]
- of the Innuits, [411], [427], [453], [454]
- Weaving, grass baskets, hats, etc., by Aleutians, [181]
- grass and bark, by Sitkans, [52]
- Whaling, Aleutian, [151], [152], [153]
- Americans, [71], [72], [440], [441]
- Innuit, [439]
- Wolves, none on the Aleutian Chain now, [156]
- Wrangel, Mount, the highest North American peak, [77]
- town of, [17], [18], [25]
- Y
- Yukon, the river, its characteristics, [413], [413], [414], [415], [416], [419]
- contiguous country to, [415], [416]
- its people, [417], [418], [419]
- Z
- Zagoskin, Lieutenant, his labors (1841-1845), [422]
- Zarenbo, island of, [27]
- Lieutenant, [25]
- Zalophus and Eumetopias, differences between, [362]
MAP OF
ALASKA
AND ADJOINING REGIONS.
1886.