A VOYAGE TO 
3 8o 
1779. 
October. 
The advantages that would accrue to the Ruffians by 
an immediate trade to japan, have been already adverted 
to, and are too many, and too obvious, to need inlifting 
upon. 
The Koreki country includes two diftindt nations, called 
the Wandering and Fixed Koriacs. 
The former inhabit the Northern part of the ilthmus of 
Kamtfchatka, and the whole coaft of the Ealtern ocean, from 
thence to the Anadir. 
The country of the Wandering Koriacs ftretches along 
the North Eaft of the fea of Okotzk to the river Penlkina, 
and Wellward toward the river Kovyma. 
The Fixed Koriacs have a Itrong refemblance to the 
Kamtfchadales; and, like them, depend altogether on hill¬ 
ing for fubliftence. Their drefs and habitations are of the 
fame kind. They are tributary to the Ruffians, and under 
the diftrid! of the Ingiga. 
The Wandering Koriacs occupy themfelves entirely in 
breeding and pafturing deer, of which they are faid to 
poffefs immenfe numbers ; and that it is no unufual thing 
for an • individual Chief to have a herd of four or five 
thoufand. They defpife filli, and live entirely on deer. 
They have no balagans ; and their only habitations are 
{hip’s pilot, to learn navigation,; the other was a middle-aged man, the fupercargo, and 
called Sofa. 
Chinnikoff foon met with the punilhment due to his crimes. The two Grangers were 
conduced to Petersburg, where they were fent to the academy, with proper inftrudlors 
and attendants; and feveral young men were, at the fame time, put about them for the 
purpofe of learning the Japanefe language. 
They were thrown on the coaft of Kamtfchatka in 1730. The younger furvived 
the abfence from his country five, the other fix years. Their portraits are to be 
feen in the cabinet of the emprefs at Petersburg.-—Vid. Krafcheninikoff, Vol. ii. part 4. 
Fr. Ed. 
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