  A. Agiak, an interpreter, p. 133. Aguladock, a leader of the Unalashkans, taken prisoner by Solovioff, 139. Agulok, a dwelling-place on Unalashka, 137. Aischin-Giord, chief of the Manshurs at the beginning of the 17th century, 198. Aktunak, an island to the East of Kadyak, 108. Akun (one of the Fox Islands), 159. Akutan (one of the Fox Islands), 159. Alaksu, or Alachshak, one of the most remote Eastern islands, 65. Customs of the inhabitants, 68. Animals found on that island, ib. Conjectured to be not far from the continent of America, 69. Alaxa, one of the Fox Islands, 254. Albasin, and the other Russian forts on the Amoor, destroyed by the Chinese, 198. The Russians taken there refuse to return from Pekin, 208. AleÜtian Isles discovered, 21. 29. their situation and names, 24. Names of persons there, bear a surprising resemblance to those of the Greenlanders, 40. Inhabitants described, 41. 46. Account of those islands, 45. 55. The manners and customs of the inhabitants resemble those of the Fox Islands, 173. Are entirely subject to Russia, 174. Their number, 289. Specimen of the AleÜtian language, 303. See Fox Islands, Ibiya, Novodtsikoff, Tsiuproff. Alexeeff (Feodot). See Deshneff. Aleyut. See Fox Islands. Allai (a prince of the Calmucs), his superstitious regard for the memory of Yermac, 194. Amaganak, a toigon of Unalashka, 143. America, most probable course for discovering the nearest coast of that continent, pointed out, 27. See Islands, Delisle, Alaksu, Kadyak, Fox Islands, Steller. Amlach, one of the Andreanoffskye Islands, 76. Anadirsky Isles, or Isles of Anadyr, so called by Mr. StÆhlin, and after him by Buffon, p. 25. 284-288. Amoor river, called by the Manshurs Sakalin-Ula; and by the Mongols, Karamuran, or the Black River. Andrianoffskie Islands, their situation doubtful, 25. Description of, 74, 75. Must not be blended with the Fox Islands, 74. Account of the inhabitants, 77. Other islands beyond them to the East, ibid. Position of the Andreanoffskie-Islands, 289. Arachulla, supposed by the Chinese a wicked spirit of the air, 229. Archangel, voyages from thence to the YenisÈi, 305. Artic, or Ice Foxes, description of, 15. Asia, the first report of its vicinity to America, learned from the Tschutski, 293. Atachtak, a great promontory N. E. of Alaksu, 118. Ataku, one of the AleÜtian Islands, 45. Atchu, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, description of, 76. Atchu, Atchak, Atach, Goreloi, or Burnt Island, one of the Fox Islands, 61. Atlassoff (Volodimir), takes possession of the river Kamtchatka, 4. Atrar, a town of Little Bucharia, 333. Att, one of the AleÜtian Isles, 30. Ayagh, or Kayachu, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, 72. Description of, 75137. Ivan Shilkin, his voyage, 57, 60. Shipwrecked on one of the Fox Islands, 58. Great distresses of his crew on that island, 59. Shipwrecked a second time, 60. Ivan Vassilievitch I. makes the first irruption into Siberia, 177. Ivan Vassilievitch II. took the title of Lord of all the Siberian lands before the conquests of Yermac, 179. See Russia. Ives (Isbrand), a Dutchman. Embassador from Peter I. to Pekin, 203. Iviya, one of the AleÜtian Islands, 55. K. Kadyak, one of the Fox Islands, 35. The fondness of the natives for beads, 114. Animals and vegetables found there, 115, 116. Great reason to think it is at no great distance from the continent of America, 117. Account of the inhabitants, 118. See Glottoff. Kagumaga. See Itchadek. Kalaktak, a village of Unalashka, 143. Kama, a river, 180. Kamtchatka, discovered by the Russians, 3. The whole peninsula reduced by the Russians, 4. Of little advantage to the crown at first, but since the discovery of the islands between Asia and America its fur-trade is become a considerable branch of the Russian commerce, ibid. Its situation and boundaries, 5. Its districts, government, and population, ibid. Fixed and other tributes to the crown, 6. Its soil and climate not favourable to the culture of corn; but hemp has of late years been cultivated there with great success, 7. Supplied yearly with salt, provisions, corn, and manufactures, from Ochotsk, ibid. Rout for transporting furs from thence to Kiachta, 247. Manner of procuring fire there, and which Vaksel, Beering's lieutenant, found practised in that part of North America which he saw in 1741, 158. See Morosko, Atlassoff, Koriacs, Ochotsk and Penshinsk, Bolcheresk, Tigilskaia, Krepost, Verchnei, Nishnei, Kamtchatka Ostrogs, Volcanos, Furs and Skins. Kamtchatkoi Ostrogs (Upper and Lower) and Bolcheretsk built, 4. Kanaga, one of the Andreanoffsky Islands, 72. Description of, 75. Karaga Island, tributary to Russia, 35. See Olotorians. Kashkar, A town of Little Bucharia, 333. Kashmak, an interpreter employed by the Russians, 92. Kataghayekiki, name of the inhabitants of Unimak and Alaxa, 263. Kayachu. See Ayagh. Kiachta, a frontier town of Siberia, 12. Treaty concluded there between the Russians and Chinese, 206, 209. Is at present the centre of the Russian and Chinese commerce, 210. That place and Zuruchaitu agreed on for transacting the commerce between Russia and China, 211. Description of Kiachta. ibid. Kighigusi, inhabitants of Akutan so called, 263. Kitaika, a Chinese stuff, 238. Kogholaghi, inhabitants of Unalashka so called, 263. Kopeikina, a bay of the river Anadyr, 43. Korenoff. See Solovioff. Korga, A sand-bank at the mouth of the river Anadyr, 318. See Soliverstoff. Koriacs, their country the Northern boundary of Kamtchatka, 5. Tributary to Russia, 43. Korov s="c10">Different species, 335-341. Planted in Siberia by M. Zuchert, a German apothecary, 338. Exportation of, 342. Superiority of the Tartarian over the Indian Rhubarb, accounted for, 342. Ricksa. See Ibiya. Roaring Mountain. See Unalashka. Robertson (Dr.) See Krenitzin and Levasheff. Round Island. See Krugloi. Russia (present Empress of), a great promoter of new discoveries, 22. No communication between that country and Siberia till the reign of Ivan Vassilievitch II., 178. The empress abolishes the monopoly of the fur-trade, and relinquishes the exclusive privilege of sending caravans to Pekin, 210. Russia, a curious and interesting "Historical Account of the nations which compose that Empire" lately published, 218. Russians, quit Siberia after the death of Yermac, 194. Recover their antient territories in that country, 195. Their progress checked by the Chinese, 196. Are expelled from the Chinese dominions, 205. Are allowed to build a church (and to have four priests to officiate in it) within their caravansary at Pekin, 208. Commerce between them and the Chinese carried on only by barter, 232. Method of transacting business between them, 233. Russian exports, 234-237. Imports, 237-239. Articles of trade prohibited to individuals, 240. Duties paid by the Russian merchants, 241. The Russians' manner of trading to the Fox Islands, 264. Their attempts to discover a North East passage, 304-331. Held in great veneration by the Kamtchadals, till they quarrelled among themselves, 321. See Siberia, Chinese, Albasin, Lena. S Sabya, an island at a distance from Att, 30. See Att. Sacred Helmet, at Maimatschin, 227. Saetshie Kamen, or Hare's Rock, Description of, 328. Sagaugamak, one of the Fox Islands, 157. St. Petersburg, the geographical calendar of not to be depended on, 24. Saktunak, an island near Alaksu, 119. Sandchue, a northern province of China, 231. Sea-horse teeth, their value, 16. Sea-lion, or Scivutcha, its flesh delicate food, 265. Sea-otters, Many writers mistaken concerning them, 12. Description of, ibid. Value of their skins, 13. Selin, a town of Little Bucharia, 333. Serebranikoff, voyage of a vessel fitted out by him, 49-52. Shipwrecked on an island opposite Katyrskoi Noss, in the peninsula of Kamtchatka, 50. Description of the island, 51. Shaffyrin (Sila), a Cossac, collector of the tribute, 40, 45, 61. killed, 63. Shalauroff, his first voyage from the Lena, 323-328. Winters at a mouth of the Kovyma, 325. Not being able to double Sheletskoi Noss, returns to the Kovyma, winters there a second time, and returns to the Lena, 327. No account of his second expedition, he and his crew being killed by the Tschutski, 328 FINIS. |
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