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Population-Tansk Bay.-Peeping.-Frank Leslie's and Harper's C^-Government Postilion.-News from Kennan.-Value ofEr'rmnine Traps.-Departure for Dobratown.-A lazy Team and hy Driver.-Knowledge of "American."-Arm-n.-Lamut Chiefs.
Livelihood.-Decoration.-Improvidence.--Amusing Idea,of
:h.-Dosing the Sick.-Disease.-A Band at Sea.-Annani.between Dogs and Deer.-The Polog.-Seal-oil Lamps.-Jouri     -oamk.-Forced Traveling.-Dogs in Boots.-Ice and Bone Sled.-Agates.-Tinder.-Mode of making Fire.-Canine Character cliarities.-Leader's Sagacity.-Night Journey.-Buried in the i-Resurrecting.-Misplaced Confidence.-Yamsk.-Industry ofseteraks.-A Poorga.-Along the Coast.-Toumane.-Outrageous Im-Ce chas.-Famished Dogs. -Postilion's Mishap.-A starving it.-Criminal Negligence. - Annual Famines. - Abundance of o-Government Aid.-Laziness.-Reliance upon the Lamuts.
iK, hich is situated near the bay of the same namq, s about twenty habitations, ranging from   quite rele log houses to mere hovels. The population is a dmixture of Russians, Yakouts, Cossacks, and Lamuts, i is a hard matter to distinguish the one from the other. ' al speak the Russian language, and have adopted the
religion and customs    Tausk Bay had been frey visited by American whalers in earlier days, op occasions they used to go ashore and barter for furs kets of different kinds, so that we found the inhabit!ute familiar with American ways, and some of them uiderstood many English words and phrases. Neverthey exhibited great curiosity upon learning that an mi*  was in town, and during our stay long rows of ys were continually peering through the cracks'in tn that separated our own from the other apartthe house. They also displayed a good deal of
]O r pictures and other decorations  I was not a
i at finding illustration  taken fromn H Brpe *
~!hie's pictorials pasted upon the wafis of many
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