. The New England farmer . the place of residence. Pots, kettles,knives, and wooden pans were the principalarticles of household use I discovered. At thestorehouses there were several fish-baskets ofbirch or willow twigs. A Gilyak gentlemandoes not permit fire carried into or out of hishouse, not even in a pipe. This is not owingto his fear of conflagrations, but to a supersti-tion that such an occurrence may bring himill luck in hunting or fishing. It was in the season of curing fish, and thestench that greeted my nostrils was by nomeans delightful. Visits to dwellings or mag-azines would hav
. The New England farmer . the place of residence. Pots, kettles,knives, and wooden pans were the principalarticles of household use I discovered. At thestorehouses there were several fish-baskets ofbirch or willow twigs. A Gilyak gentlemandoes not permit fire carried into or out of hishouse, not even in a pipe. This is not owingto his fear of conflagrations, but to a supersti-tion that such an occurrence may bring himill luck in hunting or fishing. It was in the season of curing fish, and thestench that greeted my nostrils was by nomeans delightful. Visits to dwellings or mag-azines would have been nmch easier had Ipossessed a sponge saturated with colognewater. Fish were in various stages of prep-aration, some just hung upon poles, whileothers were nearly ready for the manneiof preparation is much the sameas in Kamchatka, save that the largest fish areskinned before being cut into strips. Thepoorest qualities go to the dogs, and the bestare reserved for bipeds. 150 XEW ENGLA^T> FARIMER. March. GILYAK VILLAGE. Though the natives do the most of the fish-ing on the Anioor, the} do not have a monop-oly of it, as some of the Russians indulge inthe sport. One old fellow that I saw had aboat so full of salmon ihat there Avas no roomfor more. Now and then a fish went over-board, causing an expression on the boatmansface as if he were sulfering from a dose of as-tonishment and toothache drops in equal pro-portion. A LAKGE BLACKBERRY PATCH. Ko blackberr}-, excepting the wild one ofthe fence sides and pastures, so far as ourknowledge goes, has yet been found which issufficiently hardy to ripen its fruit in the openair in and north of the State of Massachu-setts. We have transferred the icild one intothe gard^in and obtained tolerably fine fruitfrom it; not large, but of very high did not prove sufficiently prolific, however,to make its cultivation an object. If a highcultivation were persisted in for several yearsit might result in producing an abu
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