kagamale

Updated: May 28, 2025

This contribution to science was secured by Captain Henning, an agent of the company, who has long resided at Ounalaska. In his transactions with the Indians he learned that tradition among the Aleuts assigned Kagamale, the island in question, as the last resting-place of a great chief, known as Karkhayahouchak.

H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow - An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians

Last year the captain was in the neighborhood of Kagamale, in quest of sea-otter and other furs and he bore up for the island, with the intention of testing the truth of the tradition he had heard. He had more difficulty in entering the cave than in finding it, his schooner having to beat on and off shore for three days.

H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow - An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians