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Kamchadal

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[kahm-chuh-dahl, kahm-chuh-dahl] / ˌkɑm tʃəˈdɑl, ˈkɑm tʃəˌdɑl /

noun

  • Kamchadals,
    plural
  • Kamchadal
    plural
  1. Itelmen.


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It was considerably after noon when we left Petropavlovsk, and owing to the incompetency of our Kamchadal crew, and the frequency of sand-bars, night overtook us on the river some distance below Okuta.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

Cows are kept in nearly all the Kamchadal settlements, and milk is always plenty.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

A prolonged colloquy then took place in Russian between the Major and the starosta, broken by explanatory commentaries in the Kamchadal language, which did not tend materially to elucidate the subject.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

The Kamchadal messengers had left Lesnoi only one day behind us, but had been detained by the storm and bad roads, and had only reached on the previous night our second camp.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

Such an idea as rebellion or resistance to oppression is wholly foreign to the Kamchadal character now, whatever it may have been in previous ages of independence.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

The Major decided to go with Dodd in the whale-boat, and gave me command of the land party, consisting of our best Cossack, Viushin, six Kamchadals, and twenty light horses.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

All the natives in north-eastern Siberia, except the Kamchadals, Chuances, and Yukagirs, who are partially Russianised, may be referred to one or another of three great classes.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

The Russians, who are comparatively few in number, are scattered here and there among the Kamchadal villages, and are generally engaged in trading for furs with the Kamchadals and the nomadic tribes to the northward.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

As we approached the town we saw three or four Kamchadals cutting wood a short distance ahead.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

These fish, dried without salt in the open air, are the food of the Kamchadals and of their dogs throughout the long, cold northern winter.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

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