ones, and which
they bad afterwards for some reason or other endeavoured to protect
from the action of the atmosphere. ]

[Footnote 237: H. Rink, _Groenland geographisk og statistisk
beskrevet_, Bd. 2, Copenhagen, 1857, p. 344. ]

[Footnote 238: C. von Dittmar, _Bulletin hist.-philolog, de l'acad.
de St. Petersbourg_, XIII. 1856, p. 130. ]

[Footnote 239: Krascheninnikov, _Histoire et Description du
Kamtschatka_, Amsterdam 1770, II. p. 95. A. Ennan, _Reise urn die
Erde_, D.1, B.2, p. 255. ]

[Footnote 240: _Ankali_ signifies in Chukch dwellers on the coast,
and is now used to denote the Chukches living on the coast. A
similar word, Onkilon, was formerly used as the name of the Eskimo
tribe that lived on the coast of the Polar Sea when the Chukch
migration reached that point. ]

[Footnote 241: The walrus now appears to be very rare in the sea
north of Behring's Straits, but formerly it must have been found
there in large numbers, and made that region a veritable paradise
for every hunting tribe. While we during our long stay there saw
only a few walruses, Cook, in 1778, saw an enormous number, and an
interesting drawing of walruses is to be found in the account of his
third voyage. _A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, etc._ Vol. III. (by
James King), London, 1784, p. 259, pl. 52. ]

[Footnote 242: The greatest number of mammoth tusks is obtained from
the stretches of land and the islands between the Chatanga and Chaum
Bay. Here the walrus is wanting. The inhabitants of North Siberia
therefore praise the wisdom of the Creator, who lets the walrus live
in the regions where the mammoth is wanting, and has scattered
mammoth ivory in the earthy layers of the coasts where the walrus
does not occur (A. Erman, _Reise um die Erde_, Berlin, 1833--48,
D.1, B.2, p. 264). ]

[Footnote 243: Among the bears' skulls brought home from this place
Lieut. Nordquist found after his return home the skull of a sea-lion
(_Otaria Stelleri_). It is, however, uncertain whether the animal
was captured in the region, or whether the cranium was brought
hither from Kamchatka. ]

[Footnote 244: Wrangel's _Reise_, Th. 2, Berlin, 1839, p. 220. ]

[Footnote 245: According to a paper in _Deutsche Geografische
Blaetter_, B. IV. p. 54, Captain E. Dallmann, in 1866, as commander of
the Havai schooner _W.C. Talbot_, not only saw but landed on Wrangel
Land. As Captain Dallmann of recent years has been in pretty close
contact with a large number of geogr