and climate not favourable to the
culture o f corn ; but.hemp has of
late years been- cultivated there
with great fuccefs, 7. Supplied
- yearly with fait, provifions, corn,
.and manufactures, from Ochotlky
ibid. Rout for tran [porting furs
from thence to Kiachta, 247.
Manner of procuring fire there,
and which Vakfel, Beering’s lieutenant,
found practifed in that
part of North America which
he Jaw in 1741,. 158. ' See Mo-
rojko, Atlaffojf, Koriacs, Ochctjk
and Penjhinjk, Bolcherejk, Figil-
fkaia, Krepojl, Vetchnei, Nijhnei,
Kamtchatka Ofirogs, Volcanos,
Burs and Skins.
Kamtchqtkoi Ofirogs (Upper and
Lower) and Bolcheretfk built, 4.
Kanaga, One of the Andreanofrfky
■ 10 and s, 72. Defcriptionof,.7 5.
Karaga Ifland, tributary1 to Ruffia,
35'. See Oloiorians.
Kajhkar, A town of Liitle Büdlariâ,
333* j __pif-4^:. Kajhmak, an interpreter employed by .
the Ruffians, 92.
Kdtaghayekiki, name of the -inhabitants
of Unimak and Alaxa, 263.
Kayachu. See Ayagh. '■
Kiachta, a frontier town o f Siberia,
12. Treaty concluded there b‘C^
’ tween the Ruffians and Chinefe,
206. 269. Is at prefent the centre
of the Ruffian and Chinefe
commerce, 210. That place and
Zuruchaitu agreed oh tor 'trailf-
aCling the commerce r between
Ruffia and China, 2 1 1, Defcription
of Kiachta. ibid.
Kighigufi, inhabitants o f Akutan fo
called, 263.
Kitaika, a Chinefe fluff, 238.
Kogholaghi, inhabitants of Unalaffi-
ka fo called, 263-.
Kopeikina, a bay of the rivet' Ana-
d y v 4 3 - „ .
Korenojf. See Solovioff.
Kcrga, A land-bank at the mouth
of the. river Anadyr, .3 18. See
Soliverfioff.
Koriacs, their country the Northern
boundary of Kamtchatka, 5. Tributary
to Ruffia, 43.
Korovin (Ivan), his voyageS9,— 105..
Arrives at Unalaihka, his tranf-
aclions there,5 90— 96. Builds,
an hut, and prepares for wintering,
93. Being attacked by the
favuges, deftroys his hnt,: and' re- .
tires to hfs veffel, 95. Attacked
again, repulfes the lavages, and is
ftranded on the ill and o f Urrtnak,
96. After different fkfhnilhes'
with the natives,, is relieyed'by..
Glottoff, 99. His defefiptiph of
Umnak and Unalaffikä, with their,
inhabitants, .103. See Sölöüi'off.
Kovyma, a river of Siberia, 14.
Krenitzin (Captain), commands a.
feCret expedition, 23.
KirrnMn''arid Levafhefff t ffieirjöuf-
nal and .chart fent, by o'rderbf
■ the Emprefs of Ruflia, fo Dr', Ro -v
bertfon, 23. : Extradt frört their
‘journal, 25 [—-253. They -arrive
at the Fox Iflands, 233. Krenit-.
zin winters at' Aldxa, and Leva-
fheff at Unalafhka, 254. They
return to the river o f ; Kamrchat-
ka, 266. Krenitzihdrowned, iffiif,
■ See Hdkcff.'
Kraffilnikoffy Voyage of a veffel
fitted out by him, . 52. . Shipwrecked
on Copper Hand, ibid.
The crew return to Beering’s
Bland, 53.
K raf
Krajf'nihff (a Ruffian aflronomer),
his accuracy in taking the longitude
of Kamtchatka^ 273. , •
Krafhimnikoff, his hi flor y of Kamt-
' ohatka, 2 56. .
Kreft/rpa, a river of Siberia, 324.
Krugloi, or Round JJland, one of the
Aleutian Iflands,
Rulkojf, his veffel deftroyed, nnd
his crew killed by the favages,
94. 157.
Kuilaray • .a fortrefs belonging» to
Kutchum Chan, 19Q.
Kuril 1/lcs, fubjeCt to Ruffia, 5. -
Kutchum Chan (a defeendant of
Zinghis Chan-), defeats Yediger,
and takes himprifoner, 179. The
moft powerful fovereign in Siberia^
182. S m Ter mac} Sibir.
L .
Laptieff (Chariton), his unfuccefs-
ful attempt to pafs from the Lena
to the Yenisei,-309. See p. 322.
Latitude of Bolcherejk y Appendix I.
N° II. See Longitude.
Lena, a river of Siberia, 14. A ttempts
o f the Ruffians to pafs
from thence to Kamtchatka, 3 1 1-
See Menin.
Leontieff (■■&. Ruffian), has tranflated
feveral interefting Chinefe publications,
208.
Levajheff. See Krenit zin and Levajheff.
Lobafchkoff (Prokopei), killed at A-
lakflr, 66. -
Longitude, of the extreme parts of
Alia, by Mr. Muller and the
Ruffian geographers, 267. By
Mr. Engel, ibid. By Mr. Vaugondy,
268- The Ruffian fyftem
fnpported by Monf. Buaclie, a-
gain ft Engel and Vaugondy, ibid.
" See Krajfilnikcff.
Longitude of Ochotsk, Bolcheresk, and
St. Peter and St. Paul, 269.
Longitude and Latitude of the principal
pla-ces mentioned in this
work, 344.
Lyffie Ofirdvd, ‘ or Fox Iflands, 14.
Their ficnatibn and names,* 25.
Defcription of the inhabitants, 62.
,M.
Maimatfchin (the Chinefe frontier
town), deferibed, 214. Houfes
there deferibed, 216. An account
of the governor, 218. Theatre
deferibed, 219/ The {mail
pagoda, 220. The great pagoda,-
221. Idols worfhiped there,
■ ibid.—-227. See Sitting-Rooms.
Manjhurs% their origin, 197.
Maooang, a Chinefe idol, 225.
Mednoi 0fir off\ or Copper {[land,
Difcovered, 21; See Copper Ifland.
Medvedeff (Dennis), his crew
maflacred by the favages, 90.
He and part of Protaffoff’s crew
found murdered on the ifland of
Uranak, 99.
Menin (Feodor), his unfuccefsful
attempt to pafs from the Yenisei
to the Lena, 366.
Merghen, a Chinefe town, 244.
Medviodkie Oflrova, Krejfftojfskie Of-
trova, or Bear Iflands, Difcovery
of, 3.24.. . -jif'
Minyachin (a Coflac), a colle£lor of-
the tribute, 69./'
Mongol,