veffel for the pyrpofe of collecting the tribute,. They failed
in Auguft, 1749, from the Kamtchatka, rivei ; and îe-
entered it the 16th of the fame month, x.7S3> with a
large cargo of furs, In the Ipring of the fame year,
they had touched upon an unknown bland, probably one
of the Aleutians, where fevtral of the inhabitants were
prevailed upon to pay a tribute of fea* otter fions. The
names of the iflanders who had been made tributary,
were Igya, Oeknu, Ogogoektack, Shabukiauck, Alak,
Tutun, Ononufhan, Rotogèi, Tfçhinitu, Vatfch, Aihagat,
Avyjanithaga, Unalhayupu, Lak, Yanftmgalik, Umgali-
kan, Shati, Kyipago, and Olofhkot another Aleutian
had contributed three fea-otters. They brought with
them 320 heft fèa-otter Ik ms, 4S0 of the fécond, and
400 of the third fort, 500 female and middle aged,, and
.220 medwedki or young ones.
Voyage of Ah- Andrew Toliiyk, a merchant of Selenginlk,. having
drew Folftvk ~ ' _
mctse.A7'.f;ian obtained permiffion from the chancery, of BellileretIk,
refitted the fame Ihip which had made a former voyage ;
he failed from Kamtchatka Auguft the 1 9th, 1749, and
returned July the 3d,, x 7 5 a.
According to the commander’s account^ the lllip lay
at anchor from the 6th of September, 174.9, to the 20th
* The author-here remarks in A note, that- the proper names o f the
iflanders mentioned in this place, and- ini other* parts, bear a furprifing
refemblance, both, in their, found, and termination, tothpfe o f the Greenlanders.
of
o f May, 1750, before Beering’s Ifland, where they caught
only 47 fea-otters. From thence they made' to thofe
Aleutian Illands, which were* firft difeovered by Ne-
vodfikoff,'and flew there 1662 old and middle-aged fea-
otters, and; 1 19 cubs ; befides which, their cargo confift-
ed of the Ikins of 720 blue foxes, and of 840 young
fea-bears.
The inhabitants of thefe illands appeared to have never
before paid tribute; and feemed to be a-kin to the
Tfchuktlki tribe, their women being ornamented with
different figures fewed into the Ikin in the manner of that
people, and of the Tungufians of Siberia. They differed
however from them, by having two fmall holes cut
through the bottom of their under-lips, through each of
which they pafs a bit of the fea-horfe tulh, worked into
the form o f a tooth, with a fmall button at one end to
keep it within the mouth when it is placed in the
hole. They had killed, without being provoked, two of
the Kamtchadals who belonged to the Ihip. Upon the
third Ifland fome inhabitants had payed tribute; their
names were reported to be Anitin, Altakukor, and Alelh-
kut, with his fon Atfchelap. The weapons of the whole
ifland confifted of no more than twelve fpears pointed
with flint, and one dart of bone pointed with the fame;
and the Ruffians obferved in the poffeffion of the natives
two figures, carved out of wood, refembling fea-lions.
* See Chap. II..
G Auguft