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                                TRAVELS
                                  IN
                             KAMTSCHATKA,
                    DURING THE YEARS 1787 AND 1788.

                     TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
                   M. DE LESSEPS, CONSUL OF FRANCE,
                                  AND
              INTERPRETER TO THE COUNT DE LA PEROUSE, NOW
                ENGAGED IN A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, BY
                COMMAND OF HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY.

                            IN TWO VOLUMES.

                              VOLUME II.

                                LONDON:
            PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD.
                                 1790.




CONTENTS TO VOL. II.


                                                             Page

  Departure from Poustaretsk                                    1

  Find some concealed provisions                                4

  Painful travelling                                            5

  Am guilty of an imprudence that injures my health             6

  Cured by exercise                                             9

  Meet three convoys sent to M. Kasloff                        10

  River Penguina                                               12

  Arrival at Kaminoi                                         _ib_

  Koriacs falsely accused of rebellion                         13

  Description of Kaminoi                                       16

  Baidars, or large boats                                      17

  M. Schmaleff is obliged to quit me                           18

  Gives me a soldier named Yegor-Golikoff                    _ib_

  Tempest                                                      20

  Arrival of seven Tchouktchis                                 21

  Conversation with their chief                                22

  Account of two women who accosted me                         31

  Arrival at the camp of the Tchouktchis                       36

  Description of the camp                                      39

  Dress of the women                                           42

  Features                                                     43

  Commerce of the Tchouktchis                                  44

  Arrival at Pareiné                                           46

  History of a woman of Ingiga                                 47

  Alarmed by a Koriac chief, who wishes to detain me           49

  Departure from Pareiné                                       59

  Meet a horde of wandering Koriacs                            63

  Contest with my people respecting the weather                65

  Surprise them by the use I made of my compass                67

  Terrible hurricane                                           70

  Arrival at Ingiga                                            74

  Account of a Koriac prince called Oumiavin                   79

  Extent of the country                                        83

  Population                                                 _ib_

  Manners of the fixed Koriacs                                 84

  Their inflexible courage                                     85

  Mode of life                                                 87

  Occupations                                                  88

  Food                                                         89

  Drink                                                        90

  Features                                                     92

  Cradle in which the women carry their children               93

  Marriages                                                  _ib_

  Funerals                                                     96

  Religion                                                    100

  Idiom                                                       105

  Preparations for my departure from Ingiga                   106

  Superstition of my soldiers                                 113

  Departure from Ingiga                                       115

  Description of a Koriac sledge                              117

  Mode of travelling with deer                                122

  In danger of my life, from being my own charioteer          124

  Receive a visit and present from prince Amoulamoula         130

  Arrival at the yourt of Oumiavin’s brother                  132

  Details respecting my host                                  134

  Flocks of rein deer                                         143

  Yourts of the wandering Koriacs                             147

  Hot springs of Tavatoma                                     151

  Mountain of Villegui                                        154

  Ostrog of Toumané                                           157

  Tempest                                                     160

  Take shelter in a deserted yourt                            161

  Plan of my journey                                          168

  Bay of Iret                                                 170

  Arrival at Yamsk                                            172

  Dress of the wandering Toungouses                           174

  Mountain called Babouschka, or grandmother                  177

  Ostrog of Srednoi                                           180

  Of Siglann                                                  181

  Ola, a Toungouse ostrog                                     183

  Toungouse yourts                                           _ib_

  Coquetry of the women                                       185

  Features and character of the Toungouses                    186

  Perplexities to which we are reduced by the ice being
  broken up                                                   188

  Obliged to pass over a cornice of ice that adhered to a
  rock                                                        190

  Stop at the house of a Yakout                               197

  Fort of Taousk                                              200