Ke AG vay” SiC’. He AY PPK A: 
after the full moon ; after which the great tide diminifhes, and the AZauikha, or 
little tide, increafes *. 
The rivers of the country rife in the midft of the great chain of mountains, ~ 
and flow on each fide into the feas of Ochot/k, or that of Kamt/chatha. They fur- 
nifh a ready paflage in boats or canoes (with the intervention of carrying-places) 
quite acrofs the peninfula. As has been mentioned, the waters yield no fifh of their 
own, but are the retreat of myriads of migrants from the neighboring feas. 
This peninfula, and the country to the weft, are inhabited by two na- 
tions ; the northern parts by the Koréacs, who are divided into the Rein-deer 
or wandering, and the fixed Koriacs ; and the fouthern part by the Kamt/- 
chatkans, properly fo called: the firft lead an erratic life, in the tra€t bounded 
by the Penfchinfea fea to the fouth-eaft; the river Kowyma to the weft; and the 
river Anadir to the north +. They wander from place to place with their Rein- 
deer, in fearch of the mofs, the food of thofe animals, their only wealth tf. 
They are fqualid, cruel, and warlike, the terror of the fixed Koriacs, as much 
as the T/chut/ki are of them. They never frequent the fea, nor live on fifh. 
Their habitations are jourts, or places half funk in the earth: they never ufe ba- 
Jagans, or fummer-houfes elevated on pofts, like the Kammt/chatkans: are in their 
perfons lean, and very fhort: have fmall heads and black hair, which they 
fhave frequently : their faces are oval : nofe fhort : their eyes fmall: mouth large: 
beard black and pointed, but often eradicated. 
The fixed Koriacs are likewife fhort, but rather taller than the others, and 
ftrongly made: they inhabit the north of the peninfula: the dzadir is alfo their 
boundary to the north; the ocean to the eaft; and the Kamt/chatkans to the fouth. 
They have few Rein-deer, which they ufe in their fledges ; but neither of the 
tribes of Koriacs are civilized enough to apply them to the purpofes of the dairy. 
Each fpeak a different dialect of the fame language; but the fixed in moft 
things refemble the Kamt/chatkans; and, like them, live almoft entirely on 
fifh. They are timid to a high degree, and behave to their wandering brethren 
with the utmoft fubmiflion ; who call them by a name which fignifies their /laves. 
Thefe poor people feem to have no alternative ; for, by reafon of the fearcity of 
Rein-deer, they depend on thefe tyrants for the effential article of cloathing. I 
cannot trace the origin of thefe two nations ; but from the features may pronounce 
them offspring of Tartars, which have fpread to the eaft, and degenerated in 
fize and ftrength by the rigour of the climate, and often by fcarcity of food. 
* Defer. Kamtfch, 510. T Hift. Kamtfch. 136. } See p. 25 of this Work, 
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Koriacs. 
WaNDERINGo 
FIxep, 
