Page I quit the French frigates, and receive my dispatches 3 Departure of the frigates 6 Impossibility of going to Okotsk before sledges can be used 7 Details respecting the port of St. Peter and St. Paul 9 Nature of the soil 15 Climate 16 Rivers that have their mouth in the bay of Avatscha 18 Departure from St. Peter and St. Paul's with M. Kasloff and M. Schmaleff 19 Arrival at Paratounka 22 Description of this ostrog 23 Kamtschadale habitations 24 Balagans 25 Isbas 28 Chief or judge of an ostrog 31 Arrival at Koriaki 37 Arrival at the baths of Natchikin 38 Description of the baths 41 Mode of analizing the hot waters 46 Result of our experiments 50 Mode of hunting a sable 55 Departure from Natchikin, and details of our journey 59 Arrival at Apatchin 65 At Bolcheretsk, &c. 66 Shipwreck of an Okotsk galiot 68 Hamlet of Tchekafki 70 Mouth of the Bolchaïa-reka 71 Terrible hurricane 74 Description of Bolcheretsk, where I stayed till 27 January 1788 76 Population 80 Fraudulent commerce of the Cossacs and others 81 Commerce in general 84 Mode of living of the inhabitants and the Kamtschades in general 87 Dress _ib._ Food 88 Drink 93 Indigenes 94 Reflections on the manners of the inhabitants 97 Balls 101 Kamtschadale feasts and dances 103 Bear hunting 106 Hunting 110 Fishing 114 Scarcity of horses 115