The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka
The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka
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Author: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Page Count: 94 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230293332
File size: 12 Mb
Download Link: The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea; With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...of sunlight fell upon the peaks and threw them out in bold relief against the leaden sky. But, late and cold as it was, the fishing had not ceased, and by the river-side they were cleaning and preparing Kisutchi--the latest salmon that visits Kamschatkan waters. Numbers of the King Salmon (0. orientalis) hung drying in the balagans; many of very large size. The current of the river is rather swift here and at Werchni, and we learnt that it does not usually freeze completely over until the end of January. It would seem as if the severity of the frost were never very great until that month. The snow invariably falls throughout the country in October, or even earlier, but it is seldom fit for sledge-travelling until November. While at Melcova we tried to get some of the reindeer-skin dresses of the country, as we had already felt the cold considerably in European clothes, and knew that at this season the thermometer would sink steadily from day to day. They had none for sale in the settlement, and we had to send over to Werchni Kamschatka for them. These dresses are of two kinds, the kuklankas and parkas, and are merely loose saeques composed of pieces of reindeer-skin beautifully dressed, and sewn together with thread made from the sinew of the animal, just as are the "karosses" of South Africa. They are provided with a large bearskin hood, and are put on over the head without fastening of any kind. The rest of the costume is composed of a pair of breeches of like nature, and boots almost vII. KUKLANKAS AXD PARKAS. 143 exactly resembling those in use in Lapland, --made of soft leather throughout, the sole included. The toe is slightly turned up, probably to keep the feet in place when in snow-shoes, and the boot is tightly stuffed...
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The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea; With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago Volume 1. Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Author: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Page Count: 94 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230293332
File size: 12 Mb
Download Link: The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea; With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...of sunlight fell upon the peaks and threw them out in bold relief against the leaden sky. But, late and cold as it was, the fishing had not ceased, and by the river-side they were cleaning and preparing Kisutchi--the latest salmon that visits Kamschatkan waters. Numbers of the King Salmon (0. orientalis) hung drying in the balagans; many of very large size. The current of the river is rather swift here and at Werchni, and we learnt that it does not usually freeze completely over until the end of January. It would seem as if the severity of the frost were never very great until that month. The snow invariably falls throughout the country in October, or even earlier, but it is seldom fit for sledge-travelling until November. While at Melcova we tried to get some of the reindeer-skin dresses of the country, as we had already felt the cold considerably in European clothes, and knew that at this season the thermometer would sink steadily from day to day. They had none for sale in the settlement, and we had to send over to Werchni Kamschatka for them. These dresses are of two kinds, the kuklankas and parkas, and are merely loose saeques composed of pieces of reindeer-skin beautifully dressed, and sewn together with thread made from the sinew of the animal, just as are the "karosses" of South Africa. They are provided with a large bearskin hood, and are put on over the head without fastening of any kind. The rest of the costume is composed of a pair of breeches of like nature, and boots almost vII. KUKLANKAS AXD PARKAS. 143 exactly resembling those in use in Lapland, --made of soft leather throughout, the sole included. The toe is slightly turned up, probably to keep the feet in place when in snow-shoes, and the boot is tightly stuffed...
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