the
Russians, who, according to Mueller's account based on the official
documents, in all three engagements lost only three Cossacks, one
Yukagire and five Koryaeks. But notwithstanding all these defeats the
Chukches refused to submit and pay tribute to the Russians, on which
account the only gain of the campaign was the honour of avenging
Schestakov's defeat and of marching in triumph over Chukotskojnos.
For this, ten days were required. On the promontory, hills of
considerable height had to be passed. It appears as if Paulutski
followed the shore of Kolyutschin Bay to the south, and then marched
over the tongue of land which separates this bay from Anadyr Bay, or
to express it otherwise, which unites the Chukch peninsula to the
mainland of Siberia.

Many mistakes in comprehending the accounts of old travels to these
regions have arisen from our ignorance of the great southern
extension of Kolyutschin Bay, and from the same name being
frequently used to distinguish different places on the coasts of
Siberia. Thus we find on the map by A. ARROW-SMITH annexed to
Sauer's account of Billings' travels a Seidze Kamen on the south
side of Chukch peninsula, and it was perhaps just this Seidze Kamen,
known and so named by the dwellers on the Anadyr, that is mentioned
in Mueller's account of Paulutski's campaign.

On the 1st Nov./21st Oct. Paulutski returned to Anadyrsk, crowned
with victory indeed, but without having brought his adversaries to
lasting submission. No new attempt was made to induce the Chukches
to submit, perhaps because Paulutski's campaign had rendered it
evident that it was easier to win victories over the Chukches than
to subdue them, and that the whole treasures of walrus tusks and
skins belonging to the tribe would scarcely suffice to pay the
expenses of the most inconsiderable campaign.

Perhaps too the accounts of Paulutski's victories may not be quite
correct, at least the old repute of Chukches as a brave and savage
race remained undiminished. Thus we read in a note already quoted at
page 110 of the _Histoire genealogique des Tartares_ [275] "The
north-eastern part of Asia is inhabited by two allied races,
_Tzuktzchi_ and _Tzchalatzki_, and south of them on the Eastern
Ocean by a third, called _Olutorski_. They are the most savage tribe
in the whole north of Asia, and will have nothing to do with the
Russians, whom they inhumanly kill when they fall in with them, and
when any of them fall into the h