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yet unexplained ; if only the cause of this anomaly 

 could be detected, it might lead to the abolition of 

 that curse of the country. In the evening we wit- 

 nessed a haul of fish, consistino- of /cj-asiiaia. haiko, 

 and garbusha (hump-back salmon), but the fisher- 

 man confirmed the statement of the inhabitants of 

 Koriak, that his supplies were not half so abundant 



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THE author's dog, " KAM.'"' 



as those of previous years. Before dinner 1 found 

 Vasska bargaining with some of our dismissed party 

 for the gall-bladders of the bears we had killed. He 

 was purchasing them by the weight, at a price of six 

 roubles (twelve shillings) per pound, and bought 

 twenty roubles' worth of them. He undoubtedly 

 made a profit out of this, for we watched him later 

 disposing of them at a much higher })rice. The 



