4-0 VOYAGE FROM OKHOTZK 



painted, and dance for the entertainment of the gueits. 

 The games being ended, they conduct their guefb in- 

 to a building erected expreffly for fuch occafions, ca- 

 pable of containing a great number of perfons. This 

 building in fome fort refembles a fmall church, but 

 built in a very irregular, rude, and barbarous ityle. 

 Here commences a different kind of pafbme, which 

 lafts as long as the guefts continue their Hay. When 

 any one is weary, he goes to lleep; and, having had 

 Ms nap out, mixes again in the fports, till the company 

 prepares to depart. On taking leave they receive pre- 

 sents, or make mutual exchanges of whatever they have 

 about them. In thefe buildings they ufually hold their 

 confutations, enter into negotiations, form compacts, 

 and in fhort tranfact all bufmeiTes of a general nature : 

 but to thefe meetings their wives are never admitted. 



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The Konseges and Tfhugatfhes fpeak the fame dia- 

 lect ; but the Kinaitzes have a language peculiar to 

 themfelves ; thefe latter likewife follow a mode of life 

 entirely different. 



They dwell in huts of .earth, the walls whereof they 

 cafe with boards ; the window is in the cover ; for panes 

 of glafs they make ufe of the bladder and other intef- 

 tmes of animals, the little and narrow pieces whereof 

 they neatly few together with thread made of nerves 

 end fmews ; the place for going out of them is upwards 

 from below. They have no ftoves, nor are they in 

 want of firing, as thefe habitations are Sufficiently warm 

 without them. Their fweating baths are the fame kind 

 of caves in the earth, in which they cleanfe themfelves 

 withgrafs and birch-twigs. The heat is produced by ftones 

 previoufly made glowing hot in the kitchen ; which 



method. 



