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A VOYAGE TO 



1779- went on very rapidly, the Toioris people being both flout and 

 — v-^— ' frefh, and remarkable for their expertnefs in this bufinefs. 

 At ten \vc got to the OJrog, the feat of his command, where 

 we were received at the water-fide by the Kamtfchadale men 

 and women, and fome Ruflian fervants belonging to Fedo- 

 fitfch, who were employed in making canoes. They were 

 ail dreffed out in their bed clothes. Thofe of the women 

 were pretty and gay, confifting of a full loofe robe, of white 

 nankeen, gathered clofe round the neck, and fattened with 

 a collar of coloured filk. Over this they wore a fhort jacket, 

 without lleevcs, made of different coloured nankeens, and 

 petticoats of a flight Chincfe filk. Their fhifts, which had 

 lleevcs down to the wrifts, were alfo of filk; and coloured 

 filk handkerchiefs were bound round their heads, conceal- 

 ing entirely the hair of the married women, whilft thofe who 

 were unmarried, brought the handkerchief under the hair, 

 and fuffcrcd it to flow loofe behind. 



This ojlrog was pleafantly fituated by the fide of the river; 

 and confiftcd of three log-houfes; three jturfs, or houfes 

 made under ground ; and nineteen balagans, or fummer ha- 

 bitations. We were conducted to the dwelling of the Toion, 

 who was a plain decent man, born of a Ruflian woman, 

 by a Kamtfchadale father. His houfe, like all the reft in 

 this country, was divided into two apartments. A long 

 narrow table, with a bench round it, was all the furniture 

 we faw in the outer ; and the houfehold fluff of the inner, 

 which was the kitchen, was not lefs Ample and fcanty. But 

 the kind attention of our hoft, and the hearty welcome we 

 received, more than compenfated for the poverty of his 

 lodgings. 



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