Scottish geographical magazine . Inhabitant of Karaginski Island (male).. Primitive undergrouud winter-dwelling on Karaginski Island. The entrance is throughthe roof, which is reached by a ladder constructed out of a notched pole. KAMCHATKA. 247 to nine fathoms after tlie bar has been passed. The Linnet anchored infour fathoms close to the sandspit, at a distance of one and a half milessouth-east of the village. The people of Northern Kamchatka constitute perhaps the mostinteresting object for study of the whole country; and it was thereforewith great pleasure tliat we saw that Ave had been ri
Scottish geographical magazine . Inhabitant of Karaginski Island (male).. Primitive undergrouud winter-dwelling on Karaginski Island. The entrance is throughthe roof, which is reached by a ladder constructed out of a notched pole. KAMCHATKA. 247 to nine fathoms after tlie bar has been passed. The Linnet anchored infour fathoms close to the sandspit, at a distance of one and a half milessouth-east of the village. The people of Northern Kamchatka constitute perhaps the mostinteresting object for study of the whole country; and it was thereforewith great pleasure tliat we saw that Ave had been rightly informed as tothe existence of a village at the mouth of the Karaga river. This, theostrog of the Karaga, on one of the routes for sledges travelling toOkhotsk, was passed through by De Lesseps in 1787, and by Dobell in1812 (p. 93), and is described by the former as the last in the districtof Kamchatka. Tlie inhabitants showed by the presence of severalhalf-breeds amongst them that they were not absolutely free fromcontact with the Russians, yet their dress and h
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