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The Koriacks, 



Of these, some tribes have fixed habitations, others rove 

 through extensive deserts. None have any chiefs ; homi- 

 cide is punished, and with great cruelty by the relations of 



the deceased. 

 The wandering tribes lead a pastoral life, and support 



themselves by the products of their herds of Rhen-deer; the 



sedentary are hunters, and live on the products of the chase. 



Their doathing is the same as that of the Kampschatdales. 



The habitations of the sedentary, resemble also that of the 

 Kampschatdales. Those of the wandering tribes are formed 

 of posts fixed in the earth and covered with the skins of 

 Rhen-deer, with an opening at top to let out smoke and let 

 in light. 



The wives of the pastors are reduced to the most abject 

 servitude ; they are polygaraists, and as they divide their 

 herds, they oblige one of their wives to superintend each one 

 division. They may even kill them Avith impunity. The 

 sedentary are less jealous, and even Qffer their wives and 

 daughters to strangers. 



Yet these pastors think themselves the happiest of men, 

 and that strangers come among them only to eat of the 



flesh 



