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O&ober. 
for ready money only; and we were furprized at the quan¬ 
tity of fpecie in circulation in fo poor a country. The furs 
fell at a high price, and the duration and habits of life 
of the natives call for few articles in return. Our failors 
brought a great number of furs with them from the coad 
of America, and were not lefs aftonifhed than delighted 
with the quantity of diver the merchants paid down for 
them; hut on dnding neither gin-diops to refort to, nor 
tobacco, or any thing elfe that they cared for, to be had for 
money, the roubles foon became troublefome companions, 
and I often obferved them kicking them about the deck. 
The merchant I have already had occadon to mention, gave 
our men at drd thirty roubles for a fea-otter’s fkin, and for 
others in proportion; but dnding that they had condderable 
quantities to difpofe of, and that he had men to deal with 
who did not know how to keep up the market, he afterward 
bought them for much lefs. 
The articles of importation are principally European, but 
not condned to Rudian manufactures; many are Englifh 
and Dutch; feveral likewife come from Siberia, Bucharia, 
the Calmucks, and China. They condft of coarfe woollen 
and linen clothes, yarn dockings, bonnets, and gloves; 
thin Perdan dlks; cottons, and pieces of nankeen, dlk and 
cotton handkerchiefs ; brafs coppers and pans, iron doves, 
dies, guns, powder and fhot; hardware, fuch as hatchets, 
bills, knives, fcidars, needles, looking-glades; dour, fu- 
gar; tanned hides, boots, See. We had an opportunity of 
feeing a great many of thefe articles in the hands of a mer¬ 
chant, who came in the Emprefs’s galliot from Okotzk; and 
I fhall only obferve generally, that they fold for treble the 
price they might have been purchafed for in England. 
And though the merchants have fo large a prodt upon thefe 
imported 
