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Kamchadals, character; food; language; music; numbers; physique; religion; sable trapping; summer settlements; transportation Kamchatka, animals; berries; birds; climate; first impressions; first view of coast; flowers; fruits; government; mail; population; scenery; topography; transportation; volcanoes Kamchatka River; raft, life on; valley of Kamchatkan Divide, crossing of Kamchatkan lily Kamchatkan mountains Kamenoi Kazarefski, village “Kazarm,” a Russian barrack “Kedrovnik,” see “Pine” Kennicott, leader of Alaskan exploring party Kirinsk, town on Lena River Kluchei, village Kluchefskoi volcano Knox, Colonel T. W., correspondent of N.Y.  Herald Kolyma, mosquitoes in Korak, village Koraks, Settled, appearance; experiments with American food; in Kamenoi; stupidity and ugliness; yurts Koraks, Wandering, arrival at first encampment; appearance; character; comment on dress of American woman; food; geographical range; intoxicant; language; marriage ceremony; monotonous life; old and sick killed; pologs; reindeer; relation to Chukchis; relieve starving Anadyrsk people; religion; social organisation; superstitions; tents Koratskoi, volcano Krestofskaya, village Kristi, village Kuil, village of Settled Koraks Kukel, General “Kukhlanka” fur overshirt

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Labrador tea Lamutkis Land, longing for Language, “American”; Russian difficulty of learning; grammar of; specimen; experience with, in Irkutsk La Perouse, monument to, in Petropavlovsk Lecky, W.H., reference to religion of terror Lectures, astronomical Leet, American brought by bark Onward; suicide of Lesnoi, village Letovies, summer settlements Lewis, Richard, telegraph operator brought by bark Onward Lily, Kamchatkan “Lodkas,” Siberian skiffs

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Macrae, leader of Anadyr River party Macrae and Arnold, go with Chukchis; no news from; arrive in Anadyrsk; experience with Chukchis; first winter’s work Magpies Mahood, Captain James A. Mahood and Bush Maidel, Baron Malchanski Malqua, village Manchus “Manyalla,” Korak bread Marriage ceremonies, Russian Korak Matches, Koraks see for first time Matuga, island Maximof, Kamchatkan driver Medusae; luminous Mikina, village Milkova, village Mirages Mongolian type of natives “Moroshkas,” berries Mosquitoes Moss steppe Mountains, Kamchatkan “Muk-a-moor,” Korak intoxicant Music, American, in Kamchatka; of Kamchadals; of Greek Church; on corvette Varag Myan, river

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Nalgim, mountain “Nart,” Siberian dog-sledge New York Herald, correspondent of Nights, in summer Nikolaievsk, town Nizhni Novgorod Northern District, famine in; work in Norton, forearm of pole-cutting party Norton, sound

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“Oerstel,” a spiked stick Okhotsk Sea; coast of; temperatures of; phosphorescence of Okuta, village Olga, brig, passage engaged on; inspection of; sails from San Francisco; life on; sails for Amur River Onward, bark Operator and imperator

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