Kamchadal
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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 Kennan, George
Cows are kept in nearly all the Kamchadal settlements, and milk is always plenty.
From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George
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 Kennan, George
It was one o'clock in the morning—dark, rainy, and dismal—but the moon was supposed to have risen, and our Kamchadal boatmen said that it was light enough to start.
From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George
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 Kennan, George
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