bii'ch *. The land animals are foxes of different colours,
mice, and weafels ; there are alfo beavers t, fea cats, and
fea lions as at Kamtchatka. Among their fifh we may
reckon cod, perch, pilchards, fmelts, roach, needle fifh,
terpugh, and tchavitcha. The birds are eagles, partridges,
ducks, teals, urili, ari, and gadi. The animals
for whofe Ruffian names I can find no tranflations,
are (excepting the Ari) defcribed in Krafliininikoff’s Hif-
tory of Kamtchatka, or in Steller’s relation contained in
the fecond volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of
Peterfburgh.
Account of tiie The inhabitants of Alaxa, Umnak, Unalakfha, and
Inhabitants of _
iflandT the neighbouring iflands, are of a middle nature, tawny
brown colour, and black hair. In fummer they wear
coats (parki +) made of bird fkins, over which, in bad
weather, and in their boats, they throw cloaks, called
kamli, made of thin whale guts. On their heads they
wear wooden caps, .ornamented with duck’s feathers,
* All the other journalifts uniformly defcribe Unalalhka as containing
nothing bur underwood j we mull therefore fuppofe that the trees here
mentioned were very low and ftnall, and this agrees with what goes before,
“ hardly any wood is to be found on it.”
J By beavers the journalifts certainly mean fea-otters, called by the
. Ruffians lea-beavers. See p. ra . For a delcription of the fea-otter, called
by Linnasus Lutra Marina, fee Nov. Com. Petr. vol. II. p. 367, et feq.
+ Parki in Ruffian fignifies a flairt, the coats of thefe iflanders being,
made like Ihirts.
and
and the ears of the fea-animal, called Scivutcha or fea-
lion ; they alfo adorn thefe caps with beads o f different
colours, and with little figures of bone or ftone. In
the partition of the noftrils they place a pin, about
four inches long, made of the bone, or of the ftalk
of a certain black plant; from the ends of this pin or
bodkin they hang, in fine weather and on feftivals, rows
of beads, one below the other. They thruft beads, and
bits of pebble cut like teeth; into holes made in the un-
der-lips; They alfo wear firings of beads in their ears,
with bits of amber, which the inhabitants of the other
iflands procure from Alaxa, in exchange for arrows and
kamli.
They cuktheir hair before juft above the eyes, and
fome (have the top of their heads like monks. Behind
the hair is loofe. The drefs of the women hardly differs
from that of the men, excepting that it is made
of fifh-fkins. They few with bone needles, and thread
made of fifh guts, fattening their work to the ground
before them with bodkins. They go with the head
uncovered, and the hair cut like that of the men before,
bur tied up behind in a high knot. They paint
their cheeks with ftrokes of blue and red, and wear
nofe-pins, beads, and ear-rings like the men ; they hang
beads round their neck, and checkered firings round
their arms and legs.