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'779- this fuit. The Ruffians in Kamtfchatka wear the European 



cJ~* 1/ drefs ; and the uniform of the troops quartered here, is of a 



dark green, faced with red. 



As the people fituatcd to the North and South of this 

 country arc yet imperfectly known, I fhall conclude the ac- 

 count of Kamtfchatka with fuch information concerning 

 the Kurile Iflands, and the Koreki and Tfchutfki, as I have 

 been able to acquire. 



The chain of iflands, running in a South Weft direction 

 from the Southern promontory of Kamtfchatka to Japan, 

 extending from latitude s i ° t0 45°» are called the Kuriles. 

 They obtained this name from the inhabitants of the 

 neighbourhood of Lopatka, who being themfelves called 

 Kuriles, gave their own name to thefe iflands, on firft be- 

 coming acquainted with them. They are, according to 

 Spanberg, twenty-two in number, without reckoning the 

 very fmall ones. The Northernmoft, called Shoomfka, is 

 not more than three leagues from the promontory Lopatka, 

 and its inhabitants are a mixture of natives and Kamtfcha- 

 dales. The next to the South, called Paramoufir, is much 

 larger than Shoomfka, and inhabited by the true natives ; 

 their anceftors, according to a tradition among them, having 

 come from an ifland a little farther to the South, called 

 Once ut an. Thofe two iflands were firft vifited by the Ruf- 

 fians in 17 13, and at the fume time brought under their do- 

 minion. The others in order, are at prefent made tributary 

 down to Oofhefheer inclufive, as I am informed by the 

 worthy Pallor of Paratounca, who is their Miiiionary, and 

 vifits them once in three years, and i'peaks of the illandcrs 

 in terms of the higheft com me ition, reprefenting them 

 as a friendly, hofnitablc, gene 1 us, humane race of people, 



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