enemy’s hand) having put an end to himfelf, peace was 
eftabliffied. 
From that period every thing went on very peaceably, 
till the year 1740, when a few Ruffians loft their lives in a 
tumult, which was attended with no farther confequences; 
and, except the infurre&ion at Bolcheretfk in 1770 (which 
hath been already noticed), there has been no difturbance 
fince. 
Though the quelling the rebellion of 1731 was attended 
with the lofs of a great number of inhabitants, yet I was 
informed, that the country had recovered itfelf, and was 
become more populous than ever, when, in the year 1767, 
the fmall-pox, brought by a foldier from Okotzk, broke out 
among them for the firft time, marking its progrefs with 
ravages not lefs dreadful than the plague, and feeming to 
threaten their entire extirpation. They compute that near 
twenty thoufand died of this diforder in Kamtfchatka, the 
Koreki country, and the Kurile illands. The inhabitants of 
whole villages were fwept away. Of this we had fufficient 
proofs before our eyes. There are no lefs than eight oftrogs 
Scattered about the bay of Awatlka, all which, we were in¬ 
formed, had been fully inhabited, but are now entirely de¬ 
folate, except St. Peter and St. Paul; and even that contains 
no more than feven Kamtfchadales, who are tributary. At 
Paratounca oftrog there are but thirty-fix native inhabitants, 
men, women, and children, which, before it was vifited by 
the fmall-pox, we were told, contained three hundred and 
fixty. In our road to Bolcheretfk, we paffed four extenfive 
oftrogs , with not an inhabitant in them. In the prefent di- 
minilhed ftate of the natives, with frefh fupplies of Ruf¬ 
fians and Coffacks perpetually pouring in, and who in¬ 
termix with them by marriage, it is probable, that in lefs 
than 
