Note 1 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.

Their name is variously spelt Gee-laks, Giliaks, Ghiliaks, and Gilyaks. Living near and resembling in many points the Goldi, the two tribes, for ethnographical purposes, are sometimes classed together as branches of the Tunguse family. But M. Réclus is right when, speaking of the “Giliaks” or “Kilé,” he calls them “frères de ceux qui vivent dans l’île de Sakhalin et parents de ces mystérieux Aïnos qui sont l’objet de tant de discussion entre les ethnologistes”; and Mr. Howorth says that the Ghiliaks, called “Fish-skin Tata” by the Chinese, are no doubt sophisticated Aïnos, while the Goldi are Tunguses.