Names.
Perch.
Stone ditto.
Char.
Trout.
Minnow.
Pike.
TO THE EASTERN OCEAN, &c.                 8?
Yakut Names.              Ruflian Names.
Alfhre.                    Okun,  n   ,        .    «  ,    «        .1
,-   „                       *r   *     > plenty m all the ftony rivulets.
Taalbas.                   Yerih 5 )
Sobo.                      Karas ; chiefly in lakes.
Kafil balik.              Krafnaia riba ; fcarce%
Irungk bulyk. Nefnaki; a white fifh fhaped like a trout; very
fcarce*
Timir atta.              Zfheleznoi noga*
Turuchan.               Nerpilki; fhorter and broader than the feld.
Soluro.                     Mondufhka.
Sording,                   Shtfhuk 5 fome of a mod extraordinary fize.    I
faw one caught in the lake Kyfla, near Zafhi-
Verfk, about 6 feet long, and weighing 108 lb*
or 3 poods. The back, towards the head»
was covered with a kind of mofs. I ate fome
of it, and found very little difference between
the flavour of it and the fmaller fort.
Irungka, - - refembling in ilze and appearance a fprat or
anchovy j perhaps the fame kind of fifh as is
caught at Revel, and caUed Stromlingi.
The mukfoon, omul, and feld, come in very great fhoals in
September, are very numerous for about 10 or 15 days, and de-
part fhortly after the river clofes. They do not afcend fo high
as Virchni. Nelm^ tfhir, or chir, and fieg, are caught all the
year as high up as Virchni; and the greater part of fuch as are
caught in the fpring and fummer are fplit and dried, and the
bones taken out, from which the inhabitants extract a great quan*
tity of oil, as alfo from the fat about the guts. The feld yields
a great deal. What 1 have called the fturgeon is, in my own
opinion, the ftirled. I do not know the difference (nor did any
one in our Expedition), but judge from the fize ; for I never faw
one that weighed more than 40 lb., and the ordinary weight was
from 5 to 10 lb.; yet, owing to their extreme fatnefs and
firmnefs, I am inclined to think that the rivers of thefe parts are
favourable to them j and the fturgeon that I have feen in other
parts