represented by Sablowsky, the geographer of the Russian
empire, as consisting of the following five groupes;—
1.—-The Aleutian Islands, properly so named, including
Behring’s and Copper Islands and the three other Aleutian
Islands. 2.—The Rat Islands or Krussii Ostrowa. 3.—
The Andreanovkian Islands,ffeurteen in number. -4^#The
Fox Islands or Lissii Ostrowa* twelve, including Kodyak
and Unalashka. :6%%-The Pribiilowumi Islands-,dying northward
of the two last-mentioned groupes.
Vater had in his possession many collections illustrative
of the language of these islands of which he has given an
accountlnhis additions to the “ Mithridates/’' “ The whble
results of a comparison of these different languages/’ says
Professor Vater, “ must be reserved for another occasion!';
but I must not omit to observe, that the variation between
them is not so great as to prevent our tracing; th^extension
of one and the same race of pepple through a#-these
islands along the American coast, ands even - among-
Greenlanders and Esquimaux, a ramification of which
the commencement is to be sought among the TschlSitschi/’
In confirmation of this opinion he adds ^^comparative
vocabulary collected from the most authentic sources, in
the language of the Tschuktschi, or rather^tha^of th e
Namollos, the Aleutian islanders properly so termed, that
of Kodyak, of the Tschugazzi on the north-western coast
of America, the Kolushi further southward, a people who^
as we shall hereafter observe, differ much from the Esqui5*
maux, and display marks of relationship to the Aztecan or
Mexican race, lastly, those of the Esquimaux and Greenlanders.
These observations, as Vater remarks, tend considerably
to detract from the evidence of that opinion which
severs so completely the languages and races of the two
great continents.*
I shall not enter into any further account of this race.
Suffice it to say for the present that they resemble in most
points the Namollos, already described, and that their physical
type, does not appear to deyiate much from that character
which we have found to prevail extensively among
the nations of the northern Asiatic coast.
* Nachtraege zu dem ersten Theil des Mithridates, s. 250.