CHAPTER XLVIII.

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_KAMCHATKA._

The Upper Primorsk.--History of north-eastern maritime discovery.--Russian navigation of Siberian ocean.--Explorations in the North Pacific.--Wiggins and Nordenskiöld.--Exploration of Siberia by land.--Travellers in Upper Primorsk.--The Sea of Okhotsk and fisheries.--Bush’s journey.--Okhotsk and its natives.--Kamchatka.--Its volcanoes, earthquakes, springs.--Garden produce and animals.--Kamchatdales.--Their number and character.--The Koriaks.--Their warlike spirit.--Houses of settled and wandering Koriaks.--Food.--Herds of deer.--Marriage customs.--Putting sick and aged to death.--The Chukchees.--Their habitat.--Diminution of fur animals.--Vegetation.--Intoxicating plants.--Kennan’s tales of the Chukchees.--Nordenskiöld stranded on Chukchee coast.--Onkelon antiquities 630