Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, baron de
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Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2
Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, baron de
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) -- Description and travel
Population _ib_
Manners of the fixed Koriacs 84
Their inflexible courage 85
Mode of life 87
Occupations 88
Food 89
Drink 90
Features 92
Cradle in which the women carry their children 93
Marriages _ib_
Funerals 96
Religion 100
Idiom 105
Preparations for my departure from Ingiga 106
Superstition of my soldiers 113
Departure from Ingiga 115
Description of a Koriac sledge 117
Mode of travelling with deer 122
In danger of my life, from being my own charioteer 124
Receive a visit and present from prince Amoulamoula 130
Arrival at the yourt of Oumiavin’s brother 132
Details respecting my host 134
Flocks of rein deer 143
Yourts of the wandering Koriacs 147
Hot springs of Tavatoma 151
Mountain of Villegui 154
Ostrog of Toumané 157
Tempest 160
Take shelter in a deserted yourt 161
Plan of my journey 168
Bay of Iret 170
Arrival at Yamsk 172
Dress of the wandering Toungouses 174
Mountain called Babouschka, or grandmother 177
Ostrog of Srednoi 180
Of Siglann 181
Ola, a Toungouse ostrog 183
Toungouse yourts _ib_
Coquetry of the women 185
Features and character of the Toungouses 186
Perplexities to which we are reduced by the ice being
broken up 188
Obliged to pass over a cornice of ice that adhered to a
rock 190
Stop at the house of a Yakout 197
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