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| LATITUDE, | LONGITUDE, |
| North. | West. | DIP.
LOCALITY. | Deg. Min. | Deg. Min. | Deg. Min.
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ALASKA-- | | |
Ounalaska | 53 56 | 166 13 | 66 53.5
St. Michael's | 63 27 | 161 37 | 75 00.6
Kotzebue sound | 66 03 | 161 47 | 77 05.0
Cape Sabine | 68 50 | 165 10 | 78 47.8
Icy cape | 70 08 | 161 58 | 79 56.3
Point Barrow | 71 23 | 156 15 | 81 18.6
| | |
ASIA-- | | |
Plover bay | 64 21 | 173 11 | 73 34.7
Cape Wankarem | 67 48 | 175 11 | 77 09.7
Wrangel island | 71 04 | 177 40 | 79 52.5
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To commemorate our visit, a flag, placed on a pole of driftwood, was
erected on a cliff, and to the staff was secured a wide-mouthed bottle
and a tin cylinder, in which I enclosed information of our landing, etc.
On raising the flag three cheers were given, and a salute was fired from
the cutter in honor of our newly acquired territory.

These evidences of our short visit, which was soon afterward
supplemented by the more extended exploration of the _Rodgers_, having
now become matters of history, it may be remarked with pardonable pride
that the acquisition of this remote island, though of no political or
commercial value, will serve the higher and nobler purpose of a
perpetual reminder of American enterprise, courage and maritime skill.

GENERAL REMARKS ON THE NORTHERN INHABITANTS.

From an anthropological point of view the Eskimo coming under
observation proved most interesting. The term Eskimo may be held to
include all the Innuit population living on the Aleutian islands, the
islands of Bering sea, and the shores both of Asia and America north of
about latitude 64 deg.. In this latitude on the American coast the ethnical
points that difference the North American from the Eskimo are distinctly
marked. It cannot, however, be said that the designating marks of
distinction are so plain between the American Eskimo and the so-called
Tchuktschi of the Asiatic coast. I have been unable to see anything more
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