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A VOYAGE TO 
1779. clows were covered, liad not given them a poor and dif- 
agreeable appearance. The town confifts of feveral rows 
of low buildings, each confilfing of five or fix dwellings, 
connected together, with a long common paffage running 
the length of them; on one fide of which is the kitchen 
and ftore-houfe; and on the other the dwelling apart¬ 
ments. Befides thefe, are barracks for the Ruffian foldiers 
and Coffacks; a well-looking church ; and a court-room; 
and at the end of the town a great number of Balagans , be¬ 
longing to the Kamtfchadales. The inhabitants, taken all 
together, amount to between five and fix hundred. In the 
evening, the Major gave a handfome entertainment; to 
which the principal people of the town, of both fexes, were 
invited. 
Friday 14. The next morning we applied privately to the merchant 
Fedofitfch, to purchafe fome tobacco for the bailors, who had 
now been upward of a twelvemonth without this favourite 
commodity. However, this, like all our other tranfadtions 
of the fame kind, came immediately to the Major’s know¬ 
ledge ; and we were boon after furprized to find, in our 
houfe, four bags of tobacco, weighing upward of a hun¬ 
dred pounds each, which he begged might be prefented, in 
the name of himfelf, and the garrifon under his command, 
to our failors. At the fame time, they had bent us twenty 
loaves of fine fugar, and as many pounds of tea, being arti¬ 
cles they underftood we were in great want of, which they 
begged to be indulged in prefenting to the officers. Along 
with thele, Madame Rehm had alfo fent a prefent for Cap¬ 
tain Clerke, confiding of frefli butter, honey, figs, rice, and 
fome other little things of the lame kind, attended with 
many wifhes, that, in his infirm bate of health, they might 
be of fervice to him. It was in vain we tried to oppofe this 
profufion 
