قراءة كتاب Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2

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Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2

Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788, Volume 2

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TRAVELS
IN
KAMTSCHATKA,
DURING THE YEARS 1787 AND 1788.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF

M. DE LESSEPS, CONSUL OF FRANCE,

AND

INTERPRETER TO THE COUNT DE LA PEROUSE, NOW
ENGAGED IN A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, BY
COMMAND OF HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME II.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD.
1790.


CONTENTS TO VOL. II.

Page
Departure from Poustaretsk 1
Find some concealed provisions 4
Painful travelling 5
Am guilty of an imprudence that injures my health 6
Cured by exercise 9
Meet three convoys sent to M. Kasloff 10
River Penguina 12
Arrival at Kaminoi ib
Koriacs falsely accused of rebellion 13
Description of Kaminoi 16
Baidars, or large boats 17
M. Schmaleff is obliged to quit me 18
Gives me a soldier named Yegor-Golikoff ib
Tempest 20
Arrival of seven Tchouktchis 21
Conversation with their chief 22
Account of two women who accosted me 31
Arrival at the camp of the Tchouktchis 36
Description of the camp 39
Dress of the women 42
Features 43
Commerce of the Tchouktchis 44
Arrival at Pareiné 46
History of a woman of Ingiga 47
Alarmed by a Koriac chief, who wishes to detain me 49
Departure from Pareiné 59
Meet a horde of wandering Koriacs 63
Contest with my people respecting the weather 65
Surprise them by the use I made of my compass 67
Terrible hurricane 70
Arrival at Ingiga 74
Account of a Koriac prince called Oumiavin 79
Extent of the country

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