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eastern form of the Pied Wagtail (Kittlitz's Motacilla lugens) was 

 extremely numerous ; the Yellow Wagtail much less so. But of all 

 the land birds the Kamschatkan INIarsh Tit (P. Jcmnschatkensis) was 

 at this part of the river by far the most abundant. For two or 

 three days we saw^ them in flocks of from fifty to a couple of 

 hundred individuals, streaming northward along the bank from tree 

 to tree. 



Shortly after mid-day we passed the mouth of a river joining the 

 Kamschatka on the right bank. The natives knew it as the 

 Kojerevska. It is a stream of some size, being apparently of 

 considerable depth, and ha^dng a breadth of forty yards at its 

 junction with the main stream. As far as we could gather, it 

 drains the opposing slopes of the Tolbatchinska and Kojerevska 

 volcanoes. 



We reached the little hamlet of Kojerevsky at nightfall. The 

 distance from Tolbatchik, the scene of the last rows we had had 

 with the natives, is only ninety-one versts instead of two hundred, 

 and we might with perfect justice have reduced our payment to half 

 of the sum we had promised. But, to tell the truth, we had become 

 so wearied of the endless wranglinus in which we had been 

 involved in all our dealings with these wretched people that we 

 paid them without a word. It was better to let them think that 

 they had deceived us than for them to imagine that we had 

 weakly yielded to what we knew to be an imposition. We were 

 pleased to find that the Kojerevskans exhibited strong evidences of 

 their Kamschatdale descent. We were received by the head-man, 

 a little brown fellow with bright eyes ; and under his direction the 

 people did everything in their power to help us, carrying up our 

 bao'craoe, brino-ino; us wood, and altogether showing us an amount of 

 civility that was as new to us as it was agTceable. They provided 

 us with wild cherries, cranberries, potatoes, turnips, milk, cream, 

 and butter, and last, but by no means least, with a loaf of coarse 

 rye bread, which, we heard, had been specially prepared for the 

 Ivluchi pope, wdio had been expected to pay the settlement a visit. 



