clouted hair shaking in the wind, gave them a wild and savage aspect. They were armed with pikes of their own manufacture, also with similar weapons, mounted with sheet-iron, procured from the Russians. On the dance ceasing, Mr. Murray presented the brother of the deceased chief with twelve inches of tobacco to smoke over the grave, which produced a favourable impression, and called forth the remark that now he could consider the white people as his friends. These Indians afterwards became troublesome, asked for goods on credit, and on being denied threw out some significant innuendos, saying, among other things, that the Russians had used them so at first, but had become more civil since they had cut off one of their outposts. At the great dance in the evening, the deceased chief's brother did not join the circle, but retired to a corner, and made piteous lamentations. Mr. Murray, from information collected from the natives, estimates the population of the banks of the Yukon at about one thousand men and boys able to hunt. They are distributed as follows. Between the upper branches of the river and the coast of the Pacific, on or near the 62d parallel, reside the Artez-kutchi, or "tough and hard people," numbering 100 men. The Tchu-kutchi, "people of the water," of about the same numbers, inhabit the |