PLATE LIV.
A KORIAK,
IN HIS DRESS OF CEREMONY.
THE manner of living among the Koriaks is, if possible, still more
disg.,stmg than that of the Kamtshadals, particularly in winter Their
cabm are filled with so thick a smoke, arismg from the green wood,
w k c h they burn, that one person can scarcely be distinguished from
another. This smoke is also of so acrid a nature, that it will absolutely
depnve those who are not accustomed to k of their sight, if they remain
|n I only for one day. Their principal employment in the summer is
huntmg and the care of their deer, of which they have herds of one
and two thousand; with these they constantly wander about, regardss
of every other circumstance but the quantity of moss, upon which
I.e fiom accKlent or disease. They eat every species of wild animal •
. ro. ,He filth, m which they live, a stranger must almost be d i g
- h u n g e r to be tempted to partake of their food. Thev never wash
or dean any of their cooking utensils, all of which the do^s are
suffered to eat out of at pleasure. The Koriaks were, like the L ,
shadals, a professors of Schamanism previous to the settlement of the
Russ.ans but now the Greek church begins to be introduced.
he fixed Kor.aks have furs or other things of the sa,ne nature, wh 1
HKT W,^. to part from, they exchange then, with the w nderi g
Konaks tor the skins of the r.n-deer, wuh which thev make t 2