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tafte, and ornamented on the crown with long ftreamers 

 of hair died of a beautiful red. Of all thefe curiofities 

 Glottoff carried fampies to Kamtchatka ^'-. 



The natives differ confiderably in drefs and language 

 from the inhabitants of the other Fox Iflands : and le- 

 veral fpecies of animals were obferved upon Kadyak, 

 which are not to be found upon the other iflands, viz. 

 ermines, martens, beavers, river otters, wolves, wild boars, Animals of 



Kadyak. 



and bears : the laft-mentioned animal was not indeed 

 aetually feen by the Ruffians, but the prints of its feet 

 were traced. Some of the inhabitants had clothes made 

 of the fidns of rein-deer and jevras; the latter of which 

 is a fort of fmall marmofct. Both thefe fkins were pro- 

 bably procured from the continent of America -{-. Black, 

 brown, and red foxes w-ere feen in great numbers ; and 

 the coaft abounds with fea-dogs, fea-bears, fea-lions, and 

 fea-otters. The birds are cranes, geefe, ducks, gulls, 

 ptarmigans, crows, and magpies ; but no uncommon 

 fpecies was any where difcovered. The vegetable pro- 



* Thefe and feveral other ornaments of a fimilar kuid arepreferved 

 in the cabinet of curiofities at the Academy of Sciences of St. Pcterf- 

 burg : a cabinet which well merits the attention of the curious tra- 

 veller ; for it contains a large colleftion of the dreffes of the Eaftern 

 nations. Amongfl the reft one compartment is entirely filled with the. 

 -dreffes, arms, and implements, brought from the new difcovered iflands. 



-\- Although this conjedture is probable, yet, when the reader recol- 

 lects that the ifland Alakfu is faid to contain rein-deer, he will perceive 

 that the inhabitants of Kadyak might have been fupplied with the fkins ' 

 cf that animal from thence. See p. 68. 



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