Kamchadal
Americannoun
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Kamchadals,
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Kamchadal
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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 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
At Kluchei we abandoned our rafts, and took Kamchadal log canoes, which could be propelled more easily against the rapid current of the Yolofka River, which we had now to ascend.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
Now, however, we were about to enter a wilderness which was entirely uninhabited, and little known even to our Kamchadal guides.
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
Haetsh, among the Kamchadals, precisely answers to Yama.
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
We mounted the tired, wet Kamchadals on two of our spare animals, and were off again at a gallop.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
He had learned English from the greatest master of the language that ever lived; while I had picked up my Russian from Cossack dog-drivers and illiterate Kamchadals.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
This did not weaken at all the faith of the Kamchadals in the efficacy of their atonement.
From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan
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