[15] There is some confusion about the exact date of Glazunof's
journey, partly due perhaps to the fact that he started on Dec. 30.
Wrangell (Stat. and Ethnog. Nachricht., 138) says that Glazunof's
expedition was outfitted the same year (1833) in which the St. Michael
redoubt was established. In Zeleny's abstract of Zagoskin's report
(p. 212) and by Zagoskin himself (pp. 6, 23) the departure of the
expedition is put a year later, or 1834, which is probably correct.
Dall's remarks (Alaska and Its Resources, 276, 338) on the subject
contain several errors, both of dates and facts. There is also
considerable confusion as to the names Kvikhpak and Yukon. The term
Kvikhpak (Kvikh, river; pak, large) is of Eskimo origin and was applied
by these to that part of the river which they occupied. The name Yukon,
or something near this, is of Indian derivation and was applied to
those parts of the river, below Tanana at least, that were peopled by
the Khotana or Indians.
[16] Richardson, J., Arctic Searching Expedition, London, 1851, II, 206.
[17] For details see Dall's Alaska and Its Resources, Boston, 1870.
[18] See Compilation of Explorations in Alaska, Senate Rept. 1023,
Washington, 1900; and reports on Alaska of the United States Geological
Survey.