Tufted - - No. 432.
Parroquet - No. 433.
Crefted - - No. 434.
Dufky - - No. 433.
Foolifh guillemot - No. 436. Colymbus troillc - 220.
Black guillemot - No. 437. Colymbusgrylle - 220.
Marbled "guillemot No. 438.
■Imber diver ■ - No. 440, Colymbus immer - , 2'22.
Speckled diver - No. 441.
Red-throated diver No. 443. Colymbus fiptentrionalis 220.
C H A P . VII.
General Account of Kamtfchatha continued.— O f - the I n habitants.—
Origin of the Kamtfchadales.— Difcovered
by the Rujftans.-—AbftraEl of their Hiftory.— Numbers.
Prefent State.— O f the Ruff an Commerce in Kamtfchatha.
— O f the Kamtfchadale Habitations and
Krefs.— O f the Kurile Ifands.— The Koreki.— The
Tfchutjki.
T H E prefent inhabitants o f Kamtfchatka are o f three
forts. T h e natives, or Kamtfchadales. T he Ruf- ,— j
fians and Co ifacks : and a mixture o f thefe two by marriage.
Mr. Steller, who refided fome time in this country, and
feems to have taken great pains to gain information on this
fubject, is perfuaded, that the true Kamtfchadales are a
people o f great antiquity, and have for many ages inhabited
this p en in fu la ; and that they are originally descended
from the Mungalians, and not either from the Ton-
gufian Tartars, as fome, or the Japanefe, as others have
imagined.
T h e principal arguments, b y which he fupports thefe
opinions, a r e : T ha t there exifts not among them the trace
o f a tradition o f their ha vin g migrated from any other
country : that they believe themfelves to have been created
and