Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian Tartary: From the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka, Svazek 2Charles Knight, 1825 |
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Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Russia and Siberian ..., Svazek 2 John Dundas Cochrane Náhled není k dispozici. - 2015 |
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Strana 276 - I am directed by the President of the Royal Society to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and to inform you that the paper to which you allude, dated 10th January, 1821, and addressed to the Secretary and President of the Royal Society, has also been received, and will be returned to you, on your applying for the same, or to any person producing an order signed by you for that purpose. " I have the honour to be, &c.
Strana 69 - January ; and 1 certainly am the first Englishman that ever married a Kamtchatdale, and my wife is undoubtedly the first native of that peninsula that ever visited happy Britain. The winter was passed in a constant round of hospitality and comfort, and hardly any thing remarkable occurred to call for observation. Three shocks of earthquakes were felt, two of them very severe ; one threw the sand up from the banks of the river Kamtchatka, and quite annihilated the snow ; the Cliutchefska sopka also...
Strana 168 - I do not know whether this is the case in other parts of China. There is no fortress or defence to Maimatchin, though from three to five hundred souls remain in the village during the spring, summer, and autumn. Trade continues during the whole of the year; and there is no ceremony observed on either side on entering the Russian or Chinese villages. The best understanding exists, and each party alternately entertains the other. At this moment the Chinese are employed in cards, draughts, chess, drinking,...
Strana 71 - Among the public buildings are to be reckoned magazines for bread, for powder, for sailors, for convicts, for wine, and for arms ; a guard-house, smithy, hospital, chancery, school, and a building for the chief and his assistant. All, however, with the exception of the hospital, sailors' barracks, and school, are, at best, like the rest of the city, but emblems of misery and wretchedness.
Strana 40 - ... finest species. Next to these furs, the dogs of Kamtchatka may be considered as forming a great part of their riches. These faithful and useful animals are employed to transport fish, supply the house with water, the cattle with hay, — in short, to do all the work that horses perform in England. They are fed as circumstances may dictate, being always left to shift for themselves from June to October.
Strana 249 - England, we find that foreigners should be careful of what they do, aa well as of what they write, if they wish their packets a safe' arrival to their destination : they should take care that nothing offensive to the government be inserted ; for frequently, as in England, truth is a libel, and the greater the truth, the greater the libel. Whether Mr Holman has already learnt this useful, and, to travellers, necessary lesson, time will develope ; if so, he may go where he will, and be received by...
Strana 25 - Peter's and St Paul's, seems to be a gay thriving place, where our author found even the opportunity of selecting a wife. In a tour along the coast, he judged it the most amply stocked with the necessaries of life, of any country he had ever seen. " Wood of the first growth, fish in a most abundant quantity, game of the finest flavour, and of various species, pastures inconsumable ; a chase .which yields foxes, sables, river-otters, bears, wolves, &c. of the finest specimens.
Strana 209 - ... Spanish colonies, also, and particularly in those where civilization had made little progress, the frequent change of governors was long ago considered, by sagacious observers, as a great grievance to the inhabitants. In throwing, as it were, a last longing glance at Siberia, Captain Cochrane says ; ' Provisions and clothing are cheap ; taxes are not known ; the climate is healthy ; — and what can man more desire ? I looked again to the east, and bade adieu, thankful for the many marks of esteem...
Strana 17 - November, and was performed in a narte or sledge drawn by dogs, with the occasional assistance of canoes and snow-shoes. The Koriaks who inhabit Kamtchatka, appear to be of the same origin with the Tchuktchi ; they have the same features, manners, and customs, and the same language, the same love of independence; and are, in truth, less scrupulous of giving offence to the Russians than their northern neighbours, for they frequently break out into open hostility with the inhabitants of Tyzil, unless...
Strana 42 - Of the people in general, I can only say they are as amiable and honest as ever. They are now established in villages, all built in the old Russian style, which are clean and comfortable. During the summer, or fishing, season, they leave their winter residences for the balagans or places which they use for drying their fish. Thus the summer is employed in preparing food against the winter, which latter is taken up in the chase. Beyond this, the Kamtchatdale is still the same lazy, drunken, servile...