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1779- finefs. At ten we got to the ojlrog, the feat of his com- 
M > ay ‘ mand, where we were received at the water-fide by the 
Kamtfchadale men and women, and fome Ruffian fervants 
belonging to Fedofitfch, who were employed in making 
canoes. They were all dreffed out in their beft clothes. 
Thofe of the women were pretty and gay, confifting of a 
full loofe robe, of white nankeen, gathered clofe round the 
neck, and falfened with a collar of coloured filk. Over this 
they wore a fhort jacket, without Reeves, made of different- 
coloured nankeens, and petticoats of a flight Ghinefe filk. 
Their fhifts, which had fleeves down to the wrifts, were 
alfo of filk; and coloured filk handkerchiefs were bound 
round their heads, concealing entirely the hair of the mar¬ 
ried women, whilft thofe who were unmarried, brought the 
handkerchief under the hair, and fuffered it to flow loofe 
behind. 
This ojirog was pleafantly fituated by the fide of the ri¬ 
ver ; and confifted of three log-houfes; three jourts , or 
houfes made under ground; and nineteen balagans , or 
fummer habitations. We were conduced to the dwelling 
of the tfoion) who was a plain decent man, born of a Ruf¬ 
fian woman, by a Kamtfchadale father. His houfe, like 
all the reft in this country, was divided into two apart¬ 
ments. A long narrow table, with a bench round it, was 
all the furniture we faw in the outer; and the houfhold 
ftuff of the inner, which was the kitchen, was not lefs 
fimple and fcanty. But the kind attention of our hoft, 
and the hearty welcome we received, more than compen- 
fated for the poverty of his lodgings. 
His wife proved an excellent cook; and ferved us with 
fifli and game of different forts, and various kinds of heath- 
berries. 
