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coming acquainted with them. They are, according to 1779. 
Spanberg, twenty-two in number, without reckoning the , O ^° oer ' 
very fmall ones. The Northernmoft, called Shoomfka, is 
not more than three leagues from the promontory Lopatka, 
and its inhabitants are a mixture of natives and Kamtfcha- 
dafes. The next to the South, called Paramouiir, is much 
larger than Shoomfka, and inhabited by the true natives; 
their anceftors, according to a tradition among them, hav¬ 
ing come from an ifland a little farther to the South, called 
Onecutan. Thofe two iflands were firft vifited by the Ruf¬ 
fians in 1713? and at the fame time brought under their do¬ 
minion. The others, in order, are at prelent made tributary, 
down to Oofhefheer inclufive, as I am informed by the 
worthy Pallor of Paratounca, who is their Miflionary, and 
vilits them once in three years, and fpeaks of the iflanders 
in terms of the higheft commendation, reprelenting them 
as a friendly, hofpitable, generous, humane race of people, 
and excelling their Kamtfchadale neighbours, not lefs in 
the formation of their bodies, than in docility and quick- 
nefs of underftanding. Though Oofhefheer is the Southern- 
malt illand that the Ruffians have yet brought under their 
dominion, yet I underftand that they trade to Ooroop, which 
is the eighteenth; and, according to their accounts, the 
only one where there is a good harbour for ffiips of bur¬ 
then. Beyond this, to the South, lies Nadeegfda, which 
was reprefented to us by the Ruffians, as inhabited by a 
race of men remarkably hairy, and who, like thofe of 
Ooroop, live in a Rate of entire independence *. 
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* Spanberg places the illand here fpoken of in 43 0 5c/ North latitude, and mentions 
his having watered upon it; and that this watering party brought off eight of the 
natives; of whom he relates the following circumftances t That their bodies were co~ 
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