346 cook's voyage to oct. 



of Kamtschatka, had been sent among those 

 islands. 



The advantages that would accrue to the Russians 

 by an immediate trade to Japan, have been already 

 adverted to, and are too many, and too obvious, to 

 need insisting upon. 



The Koreki country includes two distinct nations, 

 called the Wandering and Fixed Koriacs. 



The former inhabit the northern part of the isthmus 

 of Kamtschatka, and the whole coast of the Eastern 

 Ocean, from thence to the Anadir. 



The country of the Wandering Koriacs stretches 

 along the north-east of the sea of Okotsk to the river 

 Penskina, and westward toward the river Kovyma. 



The Fixed Koriacs have a strong resemblance to 

 the Kamtschadales, and, like them, depend altogether 

 on fishing for subsistence. Their dress and habit- 

 ations are of the same kind. They are tributary to 

 the Russians, and under the district of the Ingiga. 



The Wandering Koriacs occupy themselves entirely 

 in breeding and pasturing deer, of which they are 

 said to possess immense numbers; and that it is no 

 unusual thing for an individual chief to have a herd 

 of four or five thousand. They despise fish, and live 

 entirely on deer. They have no balagans ; and their 



all massacred but two, by the very sabres they had presented to 

 their supposed friends a few days before. One of the two was a 

 boy about eleven years old, named Gowga, who had accompanied 

 his father, the ship's pilot, to learn navigation ; the other was a 

 middle-aged man, the supercargo, and called Sosa. 



ChinnicofF soon met with the punishment due to his crimes. 

 The two strangers were conducted to Petersburg, where they were 

 sent to the academy, with proper instructors and attendants ; and 

 several young men were, at the same time, put about them for the 

 purpose of learning the Japanese language. 



They were thrown on the coast of Kamtschatka in 1730. The 

 younger survived the absence from his country five, the other six 

 years. Their portraits are to be seen in the cabinet of the em- 

 press at Petersburg. 



Vid. Krascheninicqfff vol. ii. part \. Fr. Ed. 



