_Beering's Island_, the winter-station of all the ships sailing for the new-discovered islands, 52.
_Belayeff (Larion)_, treats the inhabitants of the Aleütian Islands in an hostile manner; in which he is under-hand abetted by Tsiuproff, 34.
_Bolcheretsk_, a district of Kamtchatka, 5. See _Kamtchatkoi Ostrogs_.
_Bolkosky_ (prince), appointed waywode of Siberia, 190. See _Yermac_.
_Bucharia (Little)_, all subject to China, 333.
_Burgoltei_, a mountain in the valley of Kiachta, 214.
_Buttons_ (of different colours), used as marks of distinction among the Chinese, 218.
_Calumet of peace_, a symbol of friendship peculiar to America, 280.
_Camhi_, the second Chinese emperor of the Manshur race, 197. Expels the Russians from his dominions, for their riots and drunkenness, 205.
_Camphor wood_ (the true), drove by the sea on Copper Island, 107.
_Caravans_ (Russian), allowed to trade to Pekin, 203. Discontinued, and why, 209. See _Russia_.
_Chatanga_, the cape between that river and the Piasida never yet doubled, 309-313.
_Chinese_, origin of the disputes between them and the Russians, 197. Hostilities commenced between them, 198. Treaty of Nershinsk concluded, 200. Beginning of the commerce between the two nations, 202. Their trade with the Russians, 208, &c. Reckon it a mark of disrepect to uncover the head to a superior, 228. Their superstition in regard to fires, 229. Manner of their pronouncing foreign expressions, 232. No specie but bullion current among them, 233. Advantage of the Chinese trade to Russia, 240.
_Cholodiloff._ Voyage of a vessel fitted out by him, 48.
_Chusho_, (or the Fire-god), a Chinese idol, 226. See _Chinese_.
_Copper Island_, why so called, 21. 107. 252. Probable that all the hillocks in that country have formerly been vulcanoes, _ibid._ Subject to frequent earth-quakes, and abound in sulphur, 253.
_Cyprian_ (first archbishop of Siberia), collects the archives of the Siberian history, 192.
_Daurkin_ (a native Tschutski), employed by Plenisner to examine the islands to the East of Siberia, 295. The intelligence he brought back, _ibid._
_Delisle_, mistaken concerning the Western coast of America, 26.
_Deshneff_, his voyage, 313. Extracts from his papers, 315, 316. His description of the great promontory of the Tschutski, 317. Ankudinoff's vessel wrecked on that promontory, _ibid._ Deshneff builds Anadirskoi-Ostrog on the river Anadyr, 318. Dispute between him and Soliverstoff, concerning the discovery of the Korga, 319, 320. No navigator since Deshneff pretends to have passed round the N. E. extremity of Asia, 322.