CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTEE YII. 



KAMSCHATKA (cOJltinUcd). 



We begin the river journey — Our rafts — Bad weather — "Werchni Kamschatka — 

 Melcova — -A fish curral — Replenish our stores — Melcova church — Kuklanlns and 

 parlrcs — Extortionate demands of the natives — Curious marl cliffs — Mashura — 

 Rows with the people — Leprosj' — Piles of driftwood — Onset of the cold weather 

 — Tschappina — We sight the great volcanoes — Our camp -life — Wild fruits — 

 Renewed quarrels with the natives — An awkward dilemma — We win the game. 



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CHAPTEE VIII. 



KAMSCHATKA {continued). 



Morning on the river — We begin the chart — Meet the first and only traveller — Bear- 

 paths — Land and river birds — The Kamschatkan Marsh Tit — Kojerevsky village 

 — The Kanuli, or Spirits of the Volcanoes — Increased coldness of the weather — 

 Uskovska — Fox-trap— Misfortune to our photographic plates— Sunset on the 

 mountains — The great volcanoes of the Lower Kamschatka — Kluchefskaj'a and 

 its eruptions — Sevelitch — Eruptions synchronous with Krakatau — A professional 

 brother — Cultivation at Kluehi — Loss of Verglaski — Kamakoffskaya — The 

 Tchoaki — Walrus - schooner xVc^io — Thalassaetus 2}clagiciis — We arrive at Ust 

 Kamschatka — A Kamschatkan dance — We rejoin the Marchcsa . Page 156 



CHAPTEE IX. 



BERING ISLAND. 



We anchor off Kikolsky — Breeding-places of the Fur Seal — We sledge across the 

 island — Evidences of its gradual elevation — Raids by predator}' schooners — The 

 "rookery" — Land life of CaJIorhinus — Arrival of the bulls — Their installation 

 — Arrival of the cows — Organisation of the "rookery" — The adult animals — 

 The pups and hoUiischicki — Slaughtering — Annual take of skins — Curing the 

 skins — The Alaska Commercial Company — Dr. Stejneger — Relics of Bering and 

 his crew^Importation of reindeer — We return to Kamschatka . Page 187 



