THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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They all live in the fame houfe; the Ruffians at the upper *778. 
end, the Kamtfchadales in the middle; and the natives at t Q6tobei 
the lower end; where is fixed a large boiler for preparing 
their f©od, which confifts chiefly of what the fea produces, 
with the addition of wild roots and berries. There is little 
difference between the firft and laft table, befides what is 
produced by cookery, in which the Ruffians have the art to 
make indifferent things palatable. I have eat whale’s flefli 
of their dreffing, which I thought very good; and they made 
a kind of pan-pudding of falmon roe, beaten up fine, and 
fried, that is no bad fuccedaneum for bread. They may, 
now and then, tafte real bread, or have a diffi in which 
flour is an ingredient; but this can only be an occafional 
luxury. If we except the juice of berries, which they lip 
at their meals, they have no other liquor befides pure wa¬ 
ter ; and it feems to be very happy for them that they have 
nothing ftronger. 
As the ifland fupplies them with food, fo it does, in a great 
meafure, with clothing. This confifts chiefly of fkins, and 
is, perhaps, the beft they could have. The upper garment 
is made like our waggoner’s frock, and reaches as low as 
the knee. Befides this, they wear a waiftcoat or two, a pair 
of breeches; a fur cap; and a pair of boots, the foies and 
upper leathers of which are of Ruffian leather; but the legs 
are made of fome kind of ftrong gut. Their two Chiefs, 
lfmyloff and Ivanovitch, wore each a calico frock; and 
they, as well as fome others, had fhirts, which were of filk. 
Thefe, perhaps, were the only part of their drefs not made 
amongft themfelves. 
There are Ruffians fettled, upon all the principal iflands 
between Oonalaffika and Kamtfchatka, for the foie purpofe 
of collecting furs. Their great objeCt is the fea beaver or 
3 T a otter. 
