Tfetcliina.
Tagalak.
Atchu,
Amlach.
Tfetching lies Eaftward aboüt forty verfts from Kanaga,
and is about eighty in circumference. It is full of rocky
mountains, of which the Bielaia Sopka, or the White
Peak, is the higheft. In the valley there are alfo fome
warm fprings, but no rivulet abounding in filh : the
iiland contains only four families.
Tagalak is forty verfts in circumference, ten Eaft from
Tfetchina : it contains a few rocks, but neither rivulets
with filh, nor any vegetable production fit for nouriih-
ment. The coafts are röfcky, and dangerous to approach
in baidars. This iiland is alfo inhabited by no more
than four families.
Atchu lies in the fame pofition forty verfts diftant
from Tagalak, and is about three hundred in circumference:
near it is an harbour, where Ihips may ride fe-
curely at anchor. It contains many rocky mountains;
and feveral fmall rivulets that fall into the fea, and of
which one running Eaftwards abounds in filh. Thé
roots which have juft before been mentioned, and bulbs
of white lilies, are found there in plenty. Its inhabitants
amount to about fixty fouls.
Amlach is a mountainous iiland Handing to the Eaft
more than feven verfts from Atchu, and is alfo three
hundred in circumference. It contains the fame num-
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ber of inhabitants as Atchu, has a commodious
haven, and produces roots in abundance. Of feveral
fmall rivulets there is one only which flows towards the
North, that contains any filh. Befides thefe a duller of
other illands were obferved ftretching farther to the
Eaft, which were not touched upon.
The inhabitants of thefe fix illands are tributary to
Rulfia. They live in holes dug in the earth, in which aws‘
they make no fires even in winter. Their clothes are
made like Ihirts, of the Ikins of the *guillinot and puffin,
which they catch with fpringes. Over thefe in rainy
weather they wear an upper garment, made of the bladders
and other dried inteftines of feals and fea-lions oiled
and Hitched together. They catch cod and turbot with
bone hooks, and eat them raW. As they never lay in a
ftore of provifion, they fuffer greatly from hunger in.
llormy weather, when they cannot go out to fifli; at
which time they are reduced to live upon fmall Ihell-filh
and fea-wrack, which they pick up upon the beach and
eat raw. In May and June they kill fea-otters in the following
manner : When the weather is calm, they row
out to fea in- feveral baidars : having found the animal,,
they ftrike him with harpoons,. and follow him fo clofely,,
that he cannot eafily efcape. They take fea dogs in the:
fame manner. In the fevereft weather they make no
addition to their ufual cloathing. In order to. warm
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