multitude of others. These are the nearer points which may be visited, but more extended journeys full of new and varied interest, to Sergius Narrows and Peril Straits or to the Place of Islands and the Chicagof Mine to the northward, and to Redfish Bay to the southward, may be made. Footnotes [Footnote 1: January 20th, 1820, a letter written by the Directory at St. Petersburg to Chief Manager Muravief at Sitka enclosing instructions previously given to Hagemeister, instructing him to find the descendants of Chirikof's lost men, urging that it must be done, and expressing surprise that it had been neglected thus long. (Russian American Archives, Correspondence, Vol. II, No. 108.)] [Footnote 2: In Wrangell, and at a few other places in Alaska may yet be seen some of these old tribal houses, built as in primitive days in most ways. The beams and planks were fashioned with an adze, and the evenness of the workmanship in hewing them is marvelous.] [Footnote 3: The livestock taken to Sitka in 1804 consisted of "Four cows, two calves, three bulls, three goats, a ewe and a ram, with many swine and fowls." (Lisianski, Voyage Round the World, p. 218.)] [Footnote 4: Lisianski made the surveys and named the islands of the archipelago which had not been charted by Vancouver, of which he says: "By our survey it appears that amongst the group of islands, which in my chart I have denominated the Sitka Islands, from the inhabitants, who call themselves Sitka-hans, or Sitka people, are four principal ones, viz.: Jacobi, Crooze, Baranof, and Chichagof." (A Voyage Round the World, Lisianski, p. 235.)] [Footnote 5: The Russian sazhen is 7 feet.] [Footnote 6: Pronounced Al-e-ut.] [Footnote 7: These books and letters were brought by Resanof in the "Nedeshda," and upon reaching Kodiak Resanof established the library at that place. It was afterward removed to Sitka, probably by Baranof when he changed the chief factory to that place in 1807. After the United States took possession the library disappeared, whether taken to Russia or left in Sitka does not appear, but the books were likely left in Sitka and gradually disappeared through theft in the years when there was no custodian of such property.] [Footnote 8: The "Neva" was long identified with the affairs of the colony. Bought in England for the first Russian expedition round the world, Captain Lisianski reached Sitka in time for her to participate in the driving of the Indians from their fortifications. She returned to Russia later to be sailed to the colony in 1810, and was on her third voyage at the time of her loss.] [Footnote 9: Golofnin, Voyage of the Sloop "Kamchatka," in Mat. Pt. 4, p. 103.] [Footnote 10: Lutke: Voyages. Mat. Pt. 4, p. 147.] [Footnote 11: The tows were large pieces of native copper from the Copper River hammered out flat by the natives. These were carried in front of the chiefs by slaves who beat them like gongs.]