31). There are besides many notices of the Chukches at other
places in the same work (i. pp. 267-293, ii. pp. 156, 168, &c.).

FRIEDRICH VON LUeTKE in the course of his circumnavigation of the
globe in 1826-29, came in contact with the population of the Chukch
peninsula, whom he described in detail in Erman's _Archiv_ (iii. pp.
446-464). Here it ought to be noted that, while the population on
the North coast consists of true Chukches, the coast population of
the region which Luetke visited, the stretch between the Anadyr and
Cape Deschnev consists of a tribe, _Namollo_, which differs from the
Chukches, and is nearly allied to the Eskimo on the American side of
Behring's Straits.

The English Franklin Expedition in the _Plover_, commanded by
Captain MOORE, wintered in 1848-49 at Chukotskojnos, and, both at
the winter station and in the course of extensive excursions with
dogs along the coast and to the interior of the country, came much
into contact with the natives. The observations made during the
wintering were published in a work of great importance for a
knowledge of the tribes in question by Lieutenant W.H. HOOPER, _Ten
Months among the Tents of the Tuski_, London, 1853.

C VON DITTMAR[279] travelled in 1853 in the north part of Kamchatka,
and there came in contact with the reindeer nomads, especially with
the Koryaeks. The information he gives us about the Chukches (p. 126)
he had obtained from the Nischni-Kolymsk merchant, TRIFONOV, who had
traded with them for twenty-eight years, and had repeatedly
travelled in the interior of the country.

Interesting contributions to a knowledge of the mode of living of
the reindeer-Chukches were also collected by Baron G. VON MAYDELL,
who, in 1868 and 1869, along with Dr. CARL VON NEUMANN and others,
made a journey from Yakutsk by Sredni-Kolymsk and Anjui to
Kolyutschin Bay. Unfortunately, with regard to this expedition, I
have only had access to some notices in the _Proceedings of the
Royal Geographical Society_ (vol. 21, London 1877, p. 213), and _Das
Ausland_ (1880, p. 861). The proper sketch of the journey is to be
found in _Isvestija_, published by the Siberian division of the
Russian Geographical Society, parts 1 and 2.

With reference to the other travellers whose writings are usually
quoted as sources for a knowledge of the Chukches, it may be
mentioned that STELLER and KRASCHENINNIKOV only touch in passing on
the true Chukches, but instead give very instructive