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• 779- clows were covered, had not given them a poor and dif- 

 i—v—' agreeable appearance. The town confifts of feveral rows 

 of low buildings, each confifting of five or fix dwellings, con- 

 nected together, with a long common paffage running the 

 length of them ; on one fide of which is the kitchen and 

 fcore-houie ; and on the other the dwelling apartments. 

 Befides ihefe, are barracks for the Ruffian foldiers and Cof- 

 facks ; a well looking church ; and a court-room ; and at 

 the end of the town a great number of Balagans, belonging 

 to the Kamtfchadales. 1 he inhabitants, taken all together, 

 amount to between five and fix hundred. In the evening, 

 the Major gave a handfome entertainment ; to which the 

 principal people of the town, of both fcxes, were invited. 



Friday i 4 . The next morning we applied privately to the merchant 

 Fcdofitfch, to purchafe fome tobacco for the failors, who had 

 now been upward of a twelvemonth without this favourite 

 commodity. However, this, like all our other tranfactions 

 of the fame kind, came immediately to the Major's know- 

 ledge ; and we were foon after furprifed to find, in our 

 houfe, four bags of tobacco, weighing upward of a hun- 

 dred pounds each, which he begged might be prefented, in 

 the name of himfelf, and the garrifon under his command, 

 to our failors. At the fame time, they had fent us twenty 

 loaves of line fugar, and as many pounds of tea, being arti- 

 cles they und^rilood we were in great want of, which they 

 begged to be indulged in prefenting to the officers- Along 

 with thefc, Madame Behm had alio fent a prefent for Cap- 

 tain Clerke, confifting of frefh butter, honey, figs, rice, and 

 fomc other little things of the fame kind, attended with 

 many VviQies, that, in his infirm ftate of health, they might 

 be of fervice to him. It was in vain we tried io oppofe this 

 profufion of bounty, which 1 was really anxious to reftrain, 



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