1779. THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 197 



mander is much larger than the rest, consisting of 

 three rooms of a considerable size, neatly papered, 

 and which might have been reckoned handsome if 

 the talc with which the windows were covered had 

 not given them a poor and disagreeable appearance. 

 The town consists of several rows of low buildings, 

 each consisting of five or six dwellings connected 

 together, with a long common passage running the 

 length of them, on one side of which is the kitchen 

 and store-house, and on the other the dwelling apart- 

 ments. Besides these are barracks for the Russian 

 soldiers and Cossacks, a well-looking church, and a 

 court-room ; and at the end of the town a great num- 

 ber of balagans, belonging to the Kamtschadales. 

 The inhabitants taken altogether amount to between 

 five and six hundred. In the evening the major 

 gave a handsome entertainment, to which the prin- 

 cipal people of the town of both sexes were invited. 



The next morning we applied privately to the 

 merchant Fedositsch, to purchase some tobacco for 

 the sailors, who had now been upward of a twelve- 

 month without this favourite commodity. However 

 this, like all our other transactions of the same kind, 

 came immediately to the major's knowledge, and we 

 were soon after surprised to find in our house four 

 bags of tobacco, weighing upward of a hundred 

 pounds each, which he begged might be presented, 

 in the name of himself and the garrison under his 

 command, to our sailors. At the same time they 

 had sent us twenty loaves of fine sugar, and as many 

 pounds of tea, being articles they understood we were 

 in great want of, which they begged to be indulged 

 in presenting to the officers. Along with these, 

 Madame Behm had also sent a present for Captain 

 Clerke, consisting of fresh butter, honey, figs, rice, 

 and some other little things of the same kind, attended 

 with many wishes that, in his infirm state of health, 

 they might be of service to him. It was in vain we 

 tried to oppose this profusion of bounty, which I was 



o 3 



