624	INDEX.
Semidi Islands, 259.	Small Houses, 276, 277.
Semisopochnoi Island, 247, 289, 467, 471.	Small-pox at Sitka, 338, 339.
Semitic traditions in ethnology, 374.	Smith, Captain E. E., 8, 6o, 240, 263, 275, 277, 4o6.
Seniavine Straits, 385.	Smith, E. Peshine, 370, 372.
Seniavine, the corvette, 335.	Smith, F. M., acting surgeon, 25.
Serebranikoff, 272; ascends Copper River, 342.	Smithsonian Institution, 112, 114, 202, 475, 476.
Seven Craters, peak of, 289.	Smoking, manner of, 8,.
Seven Peaks Island, 247.	Snow-shoes, different kinds of, 19o.
Seward, W. H., 357 – 372, 606.	Snug Harbor, 269, 513.
Shabelsky, Achille, cited, 606.	Sokoloff, cited, 607.
Shageluk Slough, 220, 221, 282, 283.	Solfataras, 467.
Shaktolik, 24, 152, 284, 288, 407.	Solide, the ship, 313.
Shaman Mountain, 1o, 43, 56, 471.	Solokoff, Father, arrives at Sitka, 330.
Shamanism, Part I., et passim.	Solovioff, I. M, expedition under, 304, 350.
Shantar Islands, 297.	Soonkakat River, 282.
Shedden, Robert, 344.	Sopka, Koyukuk, 282 ; Vesolia, 38, 77, 185, 289.
Sheep River, 280.	Sorcery, practice of, 424.
Sheerness, 342.	South Pacific Islands, 491.
Shelikoff Company, its cruelty, 316; organized, South Shetland, 492.
317; opens schools, 351.	Sowles, Captain, 313.
Shelikoff receives medal, 309; monopolizes fur Spanberg, Lieutenant Martin, 297; explores the trade, 310, 316; death of, 317 ; cited, 606.	Kurile Islands, 299.
Shelikoff Strait, 259; explored, 326; Lake, 273.	Spaniards claim northwest coast, 309; interfere
Shenandoah, the pirate, 487.	with traders, 310, 311 ; at San Francisco, 327.
Shestakoff attack the Chukchees, 298, 375.	Spanish expedition, 307.
Shillinglaw, John J. ; cited, 607.	Spavarieff Bay, 407.
Shishaldin volcano, 467, 469, 470, 478.	Springs, 36.
Shishmareff Inlet, 268, 331.	Spruce Island, 259, 339, 349•
Shubrick, revenue cutter, 358.	Squirtzoff makes first telegraph pole, 59.
Shultz explores Lituya Bay, 317 ; death of, 319.	Stadukin, Michael, explores the Pogitcha, 295, 509. Shumagin Islands, 248, 259, 286, 350 ; area, 290 ; Staehlin, J. M., cited, 607.
discovered by Lieutenant Waxel, 300.	Stakhin-kwan tribe, 346, 411.
Shydekin, Peter, 326.	Staninkovich, Captain, 335.
Siberia, convicts from, u.	Starichkoff River, 273.
Siemenoff cited, 607.	Starry Kwikhpak village, 229.
Sierra Nevada range, 457 ; glaciers of, 458.	Staten Land, 492.
Silliman's Journal cited, 526.	Steele, Francis L., the schooner, 240.
Simpson and Dease's Expedition, 338.	Steller, G. W., 299; cited, 607.
Simpson, Sir George, 340, 481, 521.	Stepanoff, 12, 13, 122, 438 ; Dall's arrangement
Simpson, Thomas, 462 ; cited, 607.	with, 123.
Sinking Point, 257.	Stephen's Pass, 250, 253, 271.
Sirenia of Alaska, 578.	Stephen's Strait, 340.
Sitignak volcano, 467, 473.	Sterlingshire, 445.
Sitka, 4, 181 ; General Rousseau arrives at, 184, Stewart, agent of Russian American Company, 341. 253, 254, 255; Bay, 319, 412; observations at,	Stewart River, 279.
337, 351, 352, 415, 425, 443 et seq., 472, 484; Stikine River, 252, 271, 291, 337, 342, 348, 357, 462, schools at, 341 ; ship built at, 326, 332.	464 ; gold deposits, 477.
Sitka, the brig, 325.	Stockton, Commodore, 342.
Sitka-kwan Indians, 346, 412, 427.	Stoeckl, Edward de, negotiates treaty for Alaska,
Sitkin Island, 247; volcano, 289.	359-372.
Sitkinak Island, 248.	Stop-a-bit River, 46.
Sitzikunten River, 282.	Stoves, Russian, 9.
Skoot River, 270.	Strahlenberg, 607.
Slavarassi Bay, 26o; Colony, 321.	Straits of Fuca, 294, 308, 313, 314, 340.
Slavery, 420.	Stuart, David, 327 ; Robert, 328.
Slaves freed by a chief, 339.	Stuart Island, 4, 5, 24, z66.
Slavianka River, 327.	Stuckenberg, J. C., 607.
Sledge Island, 138, 268.	Suboff Islands, 308.
Sleds, Eskimo, 26 ; Innuit, 165 ; Hudson Bay, Suchitna River, 258 ; explored by Malakoff, 273, 165 ; Ingalik, 166.	292, 337, 341, 464•