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.