Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America / To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China

by William Coxe

INDEX.

A.
Agiak, an interpreter, p. [133].
Aguladock, a leader of the Unalashkans, taken prisoner by Solovioff, [139].
Agulok, a dwelling-place on Unalashka, [137].
Aischin-Giord, chief of the Manshurs at the beginning of the 17th century, [198].
Aktunak, an island to the East of Kadyak, [108].
Akun (one of the Fox Islands), [159].
Akutan (one of the Fox Islands), [159].
Alaksu, or Alachshak, one of the most remote Eastern islands, [65].
Customs of the inhabitants, [68].
Animals found on that island, ib.
Conjectured to be not far from the continent of America, [69].
Alaxa, one of the Fox Islands, [254].
Albasin, and the other Russian forts on the Amoor, destroyed by the Chinese, [198].
The Russians taken there refuse to return from Pekin, [208].
Aleütian Isles discovered, [21]. 29.
their situation and names, [24].
Names of persons there, bear a surprising resemblance to those of the Greenlanders, [40].
Inhabitants described, [41]. 46.
Account of those islands, [45]. 55.
The manners and customs of the inhabitants resemble those of the Fox Islands, [173].
Are entirely subject to Russia, [174].
Their number, [289].
Specimen of the Aleütian language, [303].
See Fox Islands, Ibiya, Novodtsikoff, Tsiuproff.
Alexeeff (Feodot). See Deshneff.
Aleyut. See Fox Islands.
Allai (a prince of the Calmucs), his superstitious regard for the memory of Yermac, [194].
Amaganak, a toigon of Unalashka, [143].
America, most probable course for discovering the nearest coast of that continent, pointed out, [27].
See Islands, Delisle, Alaksu, Kadyak, Fox Islands, Steller.
Amlach, one of the Andreanoffskye Islands, [76].
Anadirsky Isles, or Isles of Anadyr, so called by Mr. Stæhlin, and after him by Buffon, p. 25. 284-288.
Amoor river, called by the Manshurs Sakalin-Ula; and by the Mongols, Karamuran, or the Black River.
Andrianoffskie Islands, their situation doubtful, [25].
Description of, [74], [75].
Must not be blended with the Fox Islands, [74].
Account of the inhabitants, [77].
Other islands beyond them to the East, ibid.
Position of the Andreanoffskie-Islands, [289].
Arachulla, supposed by the Chinese a wicked spirit of the air, [229].
Archangel, voyages from thence to the Yenisèi, [305].
Artic, or Ice Foxes, description of, [15].
Asia, the first report of its vicinity to America, learned from the Tschutski, [293].
Atachtak, a great promontory N. E. of Alaksu, [118].
Ataku, one of the Aleütian Islands, [45].
Atchu, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, description of, [76].
Atchu, Atchak, Atach, Goreloi, or Burnt Island, one of the Fox Islands, [61].
Atlassoff (Volodimir), takes possession of the river Kamtchatka, [4].
Atrar, a town of Little Bucharia, [333].
Att, one of the Aleütian Isles, [30].
Ayagh, or Kayachu, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, [72].
Description of, [75].
B.
Bacchoff. See Novikoff.
Baranèi Kamen, or Sheep's Rock, description of, [328].
Bear Islands. See Medvioedkie Ostrova.
Beering, his voyage made at the expence of the crown, [8].
His voyage (with Tschirikoff) in search of a junction between Asia and America, in 1728 and 1729, unsuccessful, [20].
Shipwrecked, ibid. and death on an island called after his name, [21].
See Discoveries, Steller;
see also p. 323.
Beering's Island, the winter-station of all the ships sailing for the new-discovered islands, [52].
Belayeff (Larion), treats the inhabitants of the Aleütian Islands in an hostile manner; in which he is under-hand abetted by Tsiuproff, [34].
Bolcheretsk, a district of Kamtchatka, [5].
See Kamtchatkoi Ostrogs.
Bolkosky (prince), appointed waywode of Siberia, [190].
See Yermac.
Boris and Glebb. See Trapesnikoff.
Bucharia (Little), all subject to China, [333].
Buache (Mr.). See Longitude.
Burgoltei, a mountain in the valley of Kiachta, [214].
Burnt Island. See Atchu.
Buttons (of different colours), used as marks of distinction among the Chinese, [218].
C.
Calumet of peace, a symbol of friendship peculiar to America, [280].
Camhi, the second Chinese emperor of the Manshur race, [197].
Expels the Russians from his dominions, for their riots and drunkenness, [205].
Camphor wood (the true), drove by the sea on Copper Island, [107].
Caravans (Russian), allowed to trade to Pekin, [203].
Discontinued, and why, [209].
See Russia.
Chatanga, the cape between that river and the Piasida never yet doubled, [309]-313.
Chinese, origin of the disputes between them and the Russians, [197].
Hostilities commenced between them, [198].
Treaty of Nershinsk concluded, [200].
Beginning of the commerce between the two nations, [202].
Their trade with the Russians, [208], &c.
Reckon it a mark of disrepect to uncover the head to a superior, [228].
Their superstition in regard to fires, [229].
Manner of their pronouncing foreign expressions, [232].
No specie but bullion current among them, [233].
Advantage of the Chinese trade to Russia, [240].
Cholodiloff. Voyage of a vessel fitted out by him, [48].
Chusho, (or the Fire-god), a Chinese idol, [226].
See Chinese.
Copper Island, why so called, [21], [107], [252].
Probable that all the hillocks in that country have formerly been vulcanoes, ibid.
Subject to frequent earth-quakes, and abound in sulphur, [253].
Cyprian (first archbishop of Siberia), collects the archives of the Siberian history, [192].
D.
Daurkin (a native Tschutski), employed by Plenisner to examine the islands to the East of Siberia, [295].
The intelligence he brought back, ibid.
Delisle, mistaken concerning the Western coast of America, [26].
Deshneff, his voyage, [313].
Extracts from his papers, [315], [316].
His description of the great promontory of the Tschutski, [317].
Ankudinoff's vessel wrecked on that promontory, ibid.
Deshneff builds Anadirskoi-Ostrog on the river Anadyr, [318].
Dispute between him and Soliverstoff, concerning the discovery of the Korga, [319], [320].
No navigator since Deshneff pretends to have passed round the N. E. extremity of Asia, [322].
Discoveries. The prosecution of those begun by Beering mostly carried on by individuals, [8].
The vessels equipped for those discoveries described, ibid.
Expences attending them, [9].
Profits of the trade to the new discovered islands very considerable, [10].
List of the principal charts of the Russian discoveries hitherto published, [281].
Dogs, used for drawing carriages, [247].
Drusinin (Alexei), wrecked at Beering's Island, [46].
His voyage to the Fox Islands, [80]-88.
Winters at Unalashka, [82].
All the crew, except four Russians, viz. Stephen Korelin, Dmitri Bragin, Gregory Shaffyrin, and Ivan Kokovin, destroyed by the natives, [83].
See Unalashka.
Durneff (Kodion). His voyage, [45].
E.
Eclipse, behaviour of the Chinese at one, [228].
Empress of Russia. See Russia.
Engel (Mr.) Disputes the exactness of the longitudes laid down by Muller and the Russian geographers, [267].
Esquimaux Indians, similarity between their boats and those of the Fox Islands, [260], [264].
F.
Feathers (peacock's), used for a distinction of rank by the Chinese, [218].
Fedotika. See Nikul.
Foxes, different species of, described, [14].
Value of their skins, [15].
Fox Islands, sometimes called the farthest Aleütian Isles, [29].
Their land and sea-animals, [148].
Manners and customs of the inhabitants, [149].
Warm springs and native sulphur to be found in some of them, [149].
Their dress, [151], [169].
Their vessels described, [152].
Are very fond of snuff, [153].
Their drums described, [154].
Their weapons, [155], [170].
Food of the inhabitants, [168].
Their feasts, [171].
Their funeral ceremonies, [173].
Account of the inhabitants, [256]-261.
Their extreme nastiness, [258].
Their boats made like those of the Esquimaux Indians in North America, [260], [264].
Are said to have no notion of a God, [261];
yet have fortune-tellers, who pretend to divination, by the information of spirits, ibid.
The inhabitants called by the Russians by the general name of Aleyut, [263].
Proofs of the vicinity of those islands to America, [291].
G.
Geographers (Russian), their accuracy, [273].
Ghessur-Chan, the principal idol at Maimatschin, [224].
Glotoff (Stephen), his voyage, [106]-123.
Winters upon Copper Island, [106].
Arrives at Kadyak, the most Eastward of the Fox Islands, [108].
Is attacked by the natives, whom he defeats, [110],
and finally repulses, [112].
Winters at Kadyak, [113].
Is reconciled to the natives, [114].
Curiosities procured by him at that island, ibid.
No chart of his voyage, [117].
Departs from Kadyak, and arrives at Umnak, [118], [119].
Defeats a design formed against him by the natives, [120].
Meets with Korovin, [121].
Winters on Umnak, [122].
Journal of his voyage, [124]-130.
See Solovioff, Korovin.
— (Ivan), an Aleütian interpreter, [101].
Golodoff, killed at Unyumga, [65].
Goreloi. See Atchu.
Greenlanders, their proper names nearly similar to those used in the Aleütian Isles, [40].
H.
Hare's Rock. See Saetshie Kammen.
Hot Springs, found in Kanaga, [75].
in Tsetchina, [76].
I.
Ibiya, Ricksa, and Olas, Three large populous islands to the East of the Aleütian Islands, [46].
Jesuits, their compliance with the Chinese superstition, [220].
Igonok, a village of Unalashka, [142].
Igunok, a bay N. E. of Unalashka, [255].
Ikutchlok, a dwelling place at Unalashka, [137].
Imperial Academy, their chart of the New Discovered Islands, not to be depended on, [24], [27].
Indigirka, a river of Siberia, [14].
Inlogusak, a leader of the Unalashkans, killed, [139].
Isanak, one of the islands to the West of Kadyak, [109].
Islands (New Discovered), first tribute brought from thence to Ochotsk, [22].
List of those islands, according to Mr. Muller, [297].
Their names altered and corrupted by the Russian navigators, [299].
See Aleütian Isles and Fox Islands.
Islenieff (Mr.), sent to Yakutsk to observe the transit of Venus, [274].
Itchadek and Kagumaga, two friendly Toigons, [137].
Ivan Shilkin, his voyage, [57], [60].
Shipwrecked on one of the Fox Islands, [58].
Great distresses of his crew on that island, [59].
Shipwrecked a second time, [60].
Ivan Vassilievitch I. makes the first irruption into Siberia, [177].
Ivan Vassilievitch II. took the title of Lord of all the Siberian lands before the conquests of Yermac, [179].
See Russia.
Ives (Isbrand), a Dutchman. Embassador from Peter I. to Pekin, [203].
Iviya, one of the Aleütian Islands, [55].
K.
Kadyak, one of the Fox Islands, [35].
The fondness of the natives for beads, [114].
Animals and vegetables found there, [115], [116].
Great reason to think it is at no great distance from the continent of America, [117].
Account of the inhabitants, [118].
See Glottoff.
Kagumaga. See Itchadek.
Kalaktak, a village of Unalashka, [143].
Kama, a river, [180].
Kamtchatka, discovered by the Russians, [3].
The whole peninsula reduced by the Russians, [4].
Of little advantage to the crown at first, but since the discovery of the islands between Asia and America its fur-trade is become a considerable branch of the Russian commerce, ibid.
Its situation and boundaries, [5].
Its districts, government, and population, ibid.
Fixed and other tributes to the crown, [6].
Its soil and climate not favourable to the culture of corn; but hemp has of late years been cultivated there with great success, [7].
Supplied yearly with salt, provisions, corn, and manufactures, from Ochotsk, ibid.
Rout for transporting furs from thence to Kiachta, [247].
Manner of procuring fire there, and which Vaksel, Beering's lieutenant, found practised in that part of North America which he saw in 1741, [158].
See Morosko, Atlassoff, Koriacs, Ochotsk and Penshinsk, Bolcheresk, Tigilskaia, Krepost, Verchnei, Nishnei, Kamtchatka Ostrogs, Volcanos, Furs and Skins.
Kamtchatkoi Ostrogs (Upper and Lower) and Bolcheretsk built, [4].
Kanaga, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, [72].
Description of, [75].
Karaga Island, tributary to Russia, [35].
See Olotorians.
Kashkar, A town of Little Bucharia, [333].
Kashmak, an interpreter employed by the Russians, [92].
Kataghayekiki, name of the inhabitants of Unimak and Alaxa, [263].
Kayachu. See Ayagh.
Kiachta, a frontier town of Siberia, [12].
Treaty concluded there between the Russians and Chinese, [206], [209].
Is at present the centre of the Russian and Chinese commerce, [210].
That place and Zuruchaitu agreed on for transacting the commerce between Russia and China, [211].
Description of Kiachta. ibid.
Kighigusi, inhabitants of Akutan so called, [263].
Kitaika, a Chinese stuff, [238].
Kogholaghi, inhabitants of Unalashka so called, [263].
Kopeikina, a bay of the river Anadyr, [43].
Korenoff. See Solovioff.
Korga, A sand-bank at the mouth of the river Anadyr, [318].
See Soliverstoff.
Koriacs, their country the Northern boundary of Kamtchatka, [5].
Tributary to Russia, [43].
Korovin (Ivan), his voyage, [89]-105.
Arrives at Unalashka, his transactions there, [90]-96.
Builds an hut, and prepares for wintering, [93].
Being attacked by the savages, destroys his hut, and retires to his vessel, [95].
Attacked again, repulses the savages, and is stranded on the island of Umnak, [96].
After different skirmishes with the natives, is relieved by Glottoff, [99].
His description of Umnak and Unalashka, with their inhabitants, [103].
See Solovioff.
Kovyma, a river of Siberia, [14].
Krenitzin (Captain), commands a secret expedition, [23].
Krenitzin and Levasheff, their journal and chart sent, by order of the Empress of Russia, to Dr. Robertson, [23].
Extract from their journal, [251]-255.
They arrive at the Fox Islands, [253].
Krenitzin winters at Alaxa, and Levasheff at Unalashka, [254].
They return to the river of Kamtchatka, [266].
Krenitzin drowned, ibid.
See Yakoff.
Krassilnikoff, Voyage of a vessel fitted out by him, [52].
Shipwrecked on Copper Island, ibid.
The crew return to Beering's Island, [53].
Krassilikoff (a Russian astronomer), his accuracy in taking the longitude of Kamtchatka, [273].
Krashininikoff, his history of Kamtchatka, [256].
Krestova, a river of Siberia, [324].
Krugloi, or Round Island, one of the Aleütian Islands, [69].
Kulkoff, his vessel destroyed, and his crew killed by the savages, [94], [157].
Kullara, a fortress belonging to Kutchum Chan, [190].
Kuril Isles, subject to Russia, [5].
Kutchum Chan (a descendant of Zinghis Chan), defeats Yediger, and takes him prisoner, [179].
The most powerful sovereign in Siberia, [182].
See Yermac, Sibir.
L.
Laptieff (Chariton), his unsuccessful attempt to pass from the Lena to the Yenisèi, [309].
See p. [322].
Latitude of Bolcheresk, Appendix I. N^o II.
See Longitude.
Lena, a river of Siberia, [14].
Attempts of the Russians to pass from thence to Kamtchatka, [311].
See Menin.
Leontieff (a Russian), has translated several interesting Chinese publications, [208].
Levasheff. See Krenitzin and Levasheff.
Lobaschkoff (Prokopèi), killed at Alaksu, [66].
Longitude, of the extreme parts of Asia, by Mr. Muller and the Russian geographers, [267].
By Mr. Engel, ibid.
By Mr. Vaugondy, [268].
The Russian system supported by Mons. Buache, against Engel and Vaugondy, ibid.
See Krassilnikoff.
Longitude of Ochotsk, Bolcheresk, and St. Peter and St. Paul, [269].
Longitude and Latitude of the principal places mentioned in this work, [344].
Lyssie Ostrova, or Fox Islands, [14].
Their situation and names, [25].
Description of the inhabitants, [62].
M.
Maimatschin (the Chinese frontier town), described, [214].
Houses there described, [216].
An account of the governor, [218].
Theatre described, [219].
The small pagoda, [220].
The great pagoda, [221].
Idols worshiped, ibid.-227.
See Sitting-Rooms.
Manshurs, their origin, [197].
Maooang, a Chinese idol, [225].
Mednoi Ostroff, or Copper Island, Discovered, [21].
See Copper Island.
Medvedeff (Dennis), his crew massacred by the savages, [90].
He and part of Protassoff's crew found murdered on the island of Umnak, [99].
Menin (Feodor), his unsuccessful attempt to pass from the Yenisèi to the Lena, [306].
Merghen, a Chinese town, [244].
Medviodkie Ostrova, Kreffstoffskie Ostrova, or Bear Islands, Discovery of, [324].
Minyachin (a Cossac), a collector of the tribute, [69].
Mongol, the commerce between the Russians and Chinese, mostly carried on in that tongue, [231].
Morosko (Lucas Semænoff), commanded the first expedition towards Kamtchatka, [3].
Muller, (Mr.) His conjecture relating to the coast of the sea of Ochotsk, confirmed by Captain Synd, [23].
Part of a letter written by him in 1774, concerning the vicinity of Kamtchatka and America, [283].
His list of the New Discovered Islands, [297].
N.
Nankin, [231].
Naun, a Chinese town, [244].
Nershinsk. See Chinese.
Nevodtsikoff (Michael), sails from Kamtchatka river, [29].
Discovers the Aleutian Islands, ibid.
Narrative of his voyage, [31]-36.
New Moon, ceremonies observed at, by the Chinese, [228].
Nikul, or Fedotika, a river which falls into that of Kamtchatka, [321].
Nishnei, or Lower Kamtchatkoi Ostrog, a district of Kamtchatka, [5].
Niu-o, Chinese idol, [226].
North East Passage, Russians attempt to discover, [304]-331.
Novikoff and Bacchoff, their voyage from Anadyrsk, [42], [44].
Are shipwrecked on Beering's Island, where they build a small boat, and return to Kamtchatka, [44].
O.
Oby (bay of), [306].
Ochotsk and Penshinsk, Western boundaries of Kamtchatka, [5].
See Kamtchatka, Muller.
Offzin and Koskeleff (Lieutenants), first effected the passage from the bay of Oby to the Yenisèi, [306].
Olas. See Ibiya.
Olotorian Isles, whence so called, [284].
Olotorians, invade the island of Karaga, and threaten to destroy all the inhabitants who pay tribute to Russia, [36].
Onemenskaya, a bay in the river Anadyr, [43].
Oracles (Chinese), [227].
Orel, a Russian settlement, [181].
Otcheredin, (Aphanassei), his voyage to the Fox Islands, [156]-163.
Winters at Umnak, [157].
The toigon of the Five Mountains gives him hostages, for which the other toigons kill one of his children, [158].
A party sent by him to Ulaga repulsed the inhabitants, who had attacked them, [159].
Is joined by Popoff from Beering's Island, and prevails on the inhabitants to pay tribute, [161].
Receives an account of Levasheff's arrival at Unalashka, ibid.
Returns to Ochotsk, with a large cargo, leaving Popoff at Umnak, [162].
Brings home two islanders, who were baptized by the names of Alexey Solovieff and Boris Otcheredin, [163].
See Poloskoff.
P.
Pagoda. See Maimatschin.
Paikoff (Demetri), his voyage, [61]-63.
Pallas, receives from Bragin a narrative of his adventures and escape, p. [88].
Account of Kiachta and Maimatschin, extracted from his journal, p. [229].
His publication concerning the Mongol tribes, [230].
List of plants found by Steller upon the coast discovered by Beering in 1741, communicated by Mr. Pallas—quotation from a treatise of his, relative to the plants of the new-discovered islands, [279].
Extracts made by him relative to Deshneff's voyage, p. [314]-316.
Pauloffsky, his expedition, in which, after several successful skirmishes with the Tschutski, he is surprised and killed by them, [296].
Peacock. See Feathers.
Pekin. Russian scholars allowed to settle there, to learn the Chinese tongue, [209].
See Caravans.
Penshinsk, [5].
Peter I. first projected making discoveries in the seas between Kamtchatka and America, [20].
Petersburg, length of the different routs between that city and Pekin, [248].
Piasida, a river of Siberia, [309].
Plenisner (a Courlander), sent on discoveries to the N. E. of Siberia, [294].
See Daurkin.
Poloskoff, (Matthew), Sent by Otcheredin to Unalashka, [159].
Spends the autumn at Akun, and after twice repulsing the savages, returns to Otcheredin, [159]-161.
Popoff (Ivan), a vessel fitted out by him arrives at Unalashka, [158].
See Otcheredin.
Prontshistsheff (Lieutenant), his unsuccessful attempt to pass from the Lena towards the Yenisèi, [306]-309.
Protassoff, he and his crew destroyed by the savages, [133], [157].
See Medvedeff.
Pushkareff (Gabriel), his voyage, [64]-69.
Winters upon Alaksu, [65].
He, with Golodoff and twenty others, attempting to violate some girls, on the island Unyumga, are set upon by the natives, and at last obliged to retreat, [65], [66].
He and his crew tried for their inhuman behaviour to the islanders during their voyage, [67].
R.
Rheum. See Rhubarb.
Rhubarb, that from Russia generally called Turkey Rhubarb, and why, [332].
Description of, ibid.
Indian rhubarb inferior to the Tartarian or Turkey, [333].
A milk-white sort described, [334].
Different species, [335]-341.
Planted in Siberia by M. Zuchert, a German apothecary, [338].
Exportation of, [342].
Superiority of the Tartarian over the Indian Rhubarb, accounted for, [342].
Ricksa. See Ibiya.
Roaring Mountain. See Unalashka.
Robertson (Dr.) See Krenitzin and Levasheff.
Round Island. See Krugloi.
Russia (present Empress of), a great promoter of new discoveries, [22].
No communication between that country and Siberia till the reign of Ivan Vassilievitch II., [178].
The empress abolishes the monopoly of the fur-trade, and relinquishes the exclusive privilege of sending caravans to Pekin, [210].
Russia, a curious and interesting "Historical Account of the nations which compose that Empire" lately published, [218].
Russians, quit Siberia after the death of Yermac, [194].
Recover their antient territories in that country, [195].
Their progress checked by the Chinese, [196].
Are expelled from the Chinese dominions, [205].
Are allowed to build a church (and to have four priests to officiate in it) within their caravansary at Pekin, [208].
Commerce between them and the Chinese carried on only by barter, [232].
Method of transacting business between them, [233].
Russian exports, [234]-237.
Imports, [237]-239.
Articles of trade prohibited to individuals, [240].
Duties paid by the Russian merchants, [241].
The Russians' manner of trading to the Fox Islands, [264].
Their attempts to discover a North East passage, [304]-331.
Held in great veneration by the Kamtchadals, till they quarrelled among themselves, [321].
See Siberia, Chinese, Albasin, Lena.
S
Sabya, an island at a distance from Att, [30].
See Att.
Sacred Helmet, at Maimatschin, [227].
Saetshie Kamen, or Hare's Rock, Description of, [328].
Sagaugamak, one of the Fox Islands, [157].
St. Petersburg, the geographical calendar of not to be depended on, [24].
Saktunak, an island near Alaksu, [119].
Sandchue, a northern province of China, [231].
Sea-horse teeth, their value, [16].
Sea-lion, or Scivutcha, its flesh delicate food, [265].
Sea-otters, Many writers mistaken concerning them, [12].
Description of, ibid.
Value of their skins, [13].
Selin, a town of Little Bucharia, [333].
Serebranikoff, voyage of a vessel fitted out by him, [49]-52.
Shipwrecked on an island opposite Katyrskoi Noss, in the peninsula of Kamtchatka, [50].
Description of the island, [51].
Shaffyrin (Sila), a Cossac, collector of the tribute, [40], [45], [61].
killed, [63].
Shalauroff, his first voyage from the Lena, [323]-328.
Winters at a mouth of the Kovyma, [325].
Not being able to double Sheletskoi Noss, returns to the Kovyma, winters there a second time, and returns to the Lena, [327].
No account of his second expedition, he and his crew being killed by the Tschutski, [328].
Sheep's Rock. See Baranèi Kamen.
Shelatskoi Noss, whence that name is derived, [326].
Shemiya, one of the Aleütian Islands, [78].
Shilkin (Ivan), his voyage, [45].
Wrecked on one of the Fox Islands, [58].
where the Russians are attacked by the savages, whom they repulse, [59].
After suffering the greatest distress, they build a small vessel, in which they are a second time wrecked, and return at last in Serebranikoff's vessel to Kamtchatka, [59], [60].
Shuntschi, The first Chinese emperor of the Manshur race, [198].
Shushu, the first of the Kuril Isles, [301].
Sibir, the principal residence of Kutchum Chan, [182].
Siberia, conquest of by Yermac, [19].
Second irruption of the Russians into that country, [179].
State of at the time of Yermac's invasion, [182].
Conjecture concerning the derivation of that name, ibid.
Totally reduced by the Russians, [196].
Transport of the Russian and Chinese commodities through that country, [245].
See Ivan Vassilievitch I. Russia. Kutchum Chan.
Sitkin, one of the Fox Islands, [62].
Sitting-rooms, (Chinese), described, [216].
Soliverstoff (Yusko), his expedition to the Korga, to collect sea-horses teeth, [319].
Solovioff (Ivan), his voyage, [131]-155.
Arrives at Unalashka, [132].
Learns the particulars of a confederacy formed by the Toigons of Unalashka, Umnak, Akutan, and Toshko, against the Russians, [134].
Is joined by Korovin, [135].
Hostilities between him and the natives, ibid.
Winters at Unalashka, with other transactions at that island, [136].
Makes peace with the natives, and receives hostages, [139].
Meets with Korovin, [140].
His crew being greatly afflicted with the scurvy, the inhabitants of Makushinsk conspire to seize his vessel, [141].
But are happily prevented, [142].
Is visited by Glottoff, ibid.
Receives hostages from the inhabitants of Kalaktak, [143].
Sends Korenoff in different hunting parties, [144].
Journal of his voyage homewards, [144].
His description of the Fox Islands, [148].
Solvytshegodskaia. See Strogonoff.
Steller, His arguments to prove that Beering and Tschirikiff discovered America, [277].
Strogonoff (Anika), a Russian merchant, establishes a trade with Solvytshegodskaia in Siberia, [178].
Makes settlements upon the Kama and Tschussovaia, [183].
See Yermac.
Studentzoff, a Cossac, collector of the tribute, [45], [57].
Svatoi Noss, that name explained, [320].
Sulphur found on the island of Kanaga, [75].
See Copper Islands.
Synd (capt.) his voyage to the N. E. of Siberia, [300].
Discovers a cluster of islands, and a promontory, which he supposes to belong to America, [301].
T.
Tabaetshinskian, a mountain of Kamtchatka, emitting a constant smoke, [6].
Tagalak, one of the Andreanoffskye Islands, description of, [76].
Tartarian Rhubarb. See Rhubarb.
Tchingi, a town on the banks of the Tura, [185].
See Yermac.
Tea, finer in Russia than in Europe, and why, [238].
Temnac, an Aleutian interpreter, [30].
Tien, an idol worshiped in the small pagoda at Maimatschin, [220].
Tigilskaia Krepost, a district of Kamtchatka, [5].
Tolstyk, (Andrean), his voyage to the Aleutian Isles, in 1748, [30].
Ditto, in 1756, [54].
Ditto in 1760, [71]-79.
Discovers the Andreanoskie Islands, [72].
Shipwrecked near the mouth of the Kamtchatka river, [79].
Toshko. See Solovioff.
Totchikala, a village of Unalashka, [138].
Trapesnikoff (Nikiphor), Boris and Glebb, a vessel fitted out by him, her voyage and return, [39], [40], &c.
Another vessel fitted out by him destroyed, and the crew cut off, by the natives of Unimak, [140].
Tsaaduck, a kind of lamp, [150].
Tsaudsing, a Chinese idol, [226].
Tschirikoff. See Beering.
Tschussovaia (a river). See Strogonoff.
Tschutski, a people on the river Anadyr, [43].
Boundaries of their country, [293].
See Asia.
Tschukotskoi Noss, the N. E. cape of the country of the Tschutski, [293].
Stadukin and Soliverstoff claim the discovery of the passage round that promontory, [314].
See Deshneff, Svatoi Noss, Shelatskoi Noss; see also p. [322].
Tschuvatch. See Yermac.
Tsetchina, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, description of, [76].
Tsikanok, or Osernia, a river of Unalashka, [133].
Tsiuproff, his adventures at the Aleutian Islands, [32].
See Belayeff.
Turkey Rhubarb. See Rhubarb.
U.
Vaksel. See Kamtchatka.
Vassilievitch. See Ivan Vassilievitch.
Vaugondy. See Longitude.
Udagha, a bay on the N. E. of Unalashka, [255].
Verchnei, or Upper Kamtchatkoi Ostrog, a district of Kamtchatka, [5].
Ukunadok, a village of Unalashka, [143].
Ulaga, one of the Fox Islands. See Otcheredin.
Umgaina, a village of Unalashka, [143].
Umnak, one of the Fox Islands, [81].
See Korovin, Solovioff.
Unalashka, or Agunalashka, one of the Fox Islands, [82].
Adventures of four Russians belonging to Drusinin's crew there, [84]-88.
Description of, [254].
Ayaghish and the Roaring Mountain, two volcanos, on that island, [255].
Productions, ibid.
The inhabitants less barbarous than those of the other Fox Islands, [260].
Unimak, an island to the East of Agunalashka, [139].
See Trapesnikoff.
Unyumga. See Pushkareff, Golodoff.
Volcanos, some burning ones in Kamtchatka, and traces of many former ones to be observed there, [6].
One eruption near Lower Ostrog in 1762, and another in 1767, ibid.
An high volcano on the island of Kanaga, [75].
See Copper Island, Unalashka.
Vorobieff, his voyage, [42].
W.
Wheels, a carriage with four wheels a mark, of high distinction among the Chinese, [218].
White month, explained, [228].
Women, none allowed to live at Maimatschin, and why, [231].
Wsevidoff (Andrew), his voyage to the new-discovered Islands, [38].
Y.
Yakoff (Jacob), composed the chart of Krenitzin and Levasheff's voyage, [266].
Yediger (a Tartar chief), pays tribute to the Russians, [179].
See Kutchum Chan.
Yenisèi, a river of Siberia, [305], & seq.
Yerken, a town of Little Bucharia, [333].
Yermac, being driven from the Caspian Sea, retires to Orel, [181],
where he winters, and determines to invade Siberia, [182].
To which he is instigated by Strogonoff, [183].
Marches towards Siberia, and returns to Orel, [184].
Sets out on a second expedition, and arrives at Tchingi, [185].
Defeats Kutchum Chan at Tschuvatch, [186].
Marches to Sibir, and seats himself on the throne, [187].
Cedes his conquest to the Tzar of Muscovy, [189].
Who sends him a reinforcement, under the command of prince Bolkosky, [190].
Is surprised by Kutchum Chan, [191].
And drowned, [192].
Veneration paid to his memory, [193].
See Allai, Russians, Siberia, Ivan Vassielivitch II.
Yefimoff (Sava), one of Yermac's followers, an accurate historian of those times, [192].
Yugoff (Emilian), his voyage, [38].
Dies on Copper Island, [39].
Z.
Zuchert. See Rhubarb.
Zuruchaitu. Description of, [244].
Its trade very inconsiderable, [245].
See Kiachta.

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