The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . ecelebrity from the unsucccssfrJ attack of the English and French forces in 1854. IMr. Knox thus describes Petropavlosk: To make a counterfeit Petro-p;ivlosk, take a log village in the backwoods of a western state in America,and place it near a little harbor, where the ground slopes gently to the most of the houses along a single unpaved street, and drop the rest ina higgledy-piggledy fashion on the sloping hillside. All buildings must be butone story high, and those
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . ecelebrity from the unsucccssfrJ attack of the English and French forces in 1854. IMr. Knox thus describes Petropavlosk: To make a counterfeit Petro-p;ivlosk, take a log village in the backwoods of a western state in America,and place it near a little harbor, where the ground slopes gently to the most of the houses along a single unpaved street, and drop the rest ina higgledy-piggledy fashion on the sloping hillside. All buildings must be butone story high, and those uf the poorer sort thatched with grass. The betterclass may have iron or board roofs painted for preservation. The houses of theofficials and the foreign merchants may be commodious, and built of hewn tim-ber, but the doors of all must be low, and heavily constructed, to exclude thewinter cold. Every dwelling must contain a brick stove that jn-esents a side toeach of two or three rooms. In winter this stove will maintain a temperatureof about U8 degrees in all the rooms it is intended to warm. KAMCHATKA. 257. PETROPAVLOSK. Besides some Jakut immigrants, the chief stock of the scanty population ofthe country consists of the descendants of the primitive Kamchatkans, who, inspite of frequent intermarriages with their conquerors the Cossacks, have stillretained many of their ancient manners. They are of a small stature, but broad-shouldered, their cheek-bones are prominent, their jaws uncommonly broad andprojecting, their noses small, their lips very full, their hair black. The color ofthe men is dark bxown, or sometimes yellow; the women have fairer complex-ions, which they endeavor to preserve by means of bears guts, stuck upon theirfaces in spring with fresh lime, so as not to be burned by the sun. They alsopaint their cheeks with a sea-weed, wiiich, when rubbed upon them with fat,gives them a beautiful red color. The Kamchatkans are a remarkably healthy race. Many of them atta
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