Scarcely, in effect, had I time to congratulate myself on the success of my mission, and the embraces of my family, when the report of our misfortunes in the Archipelago of navigators arrived, to fill my heart with sorrow and affection. The viscount de Langle, that brave and loyal seaman, the friend, the companion of our commander; a man whom I loved and respected as my father, is no more! My pen refuses to trace his unfortunate end, but my gratitude indulges itself in repeating, that the remembrance of his virtues and his kindness to me, will live eternally in my bosom.

Reader, who ever thou art, pardon this involuntary effusion of my grief. Hadst thou known him whom I lament, thou wouldst mingle thy tears with mine: like me thou wouldst pray to Heaven, that, for our consolation, and for the glory of France, the commander of the expedition, and those of our brave Argonauts, whom it has preserved, may soon return. Ah! if whilst I write, a favourable gale should fill their sails, and impel them towards our shores!—May this prayer of my heart be heard! May the day on which these volumes are published, be that of their arrival! In the excess of my joy, my self-love would find the highest gratification.

CONTENTS TO VOL. I.

Page
I quit the French frigates, and receive my dispatches[3]
Departure of the frigates[6]
Impossibility of going to Okotsk before sledges can
be used[7]
Details respecting the port of St. Peter and St. Paul[9]
Nature of the soil[15]
Climate[16]
Rivers that have their mouth in the bay of Avatscha[18]
Departure from St. Peter and St. Paul's with M.
Kasloff and M. Schmaleff[19]
Arrival at Paratounka[22]
Description of this ostrog[23]
Kamtschadale habitations[24]
Balagans[25]
Isbas[28]
Chief or judge of an ostrog[31]
Arrival at Koriaki[37]
Arrival at the baths of Natchikin[38]
Description of the baths[41]
Mode of analizing the hot waters[46]
Result of our experiments[50]
Mode of hunting a sable[55]
Departure from Natchikin, and details of our journey[59]
Arrival at Apatchin[65]
At Bolcheretsk, &c.[66]
Shipwreck of an Okotsk galiot[68]
Hamlet of Tchekafki[70]
Mouth of the Bolchaïa-reka[71]
Terrible hurricane[74]
Description of Bolcheretsk, where I stayed till 27
January 1788[76]
Population[80]
Fraudulent commerce of the Cossacs and others[81]
Commerce in general[84]
Mode of living of the inhabitants and the Kamtschades
in general[87]
Dressib.
Food[88]
Drink[93]
Indigenes[94]
Reflections on the manners of the inhabitants[97]
Balls[101]
Kamtschadale feasts and dances[103]
Bear hunting[106]
Hunting[110]
Fishing[114]
Scarcity of horses[115]
Dogsib.
Sledges[118]
Diseases[127]
Medical sorcerers[130]
Strong constitution of the women[133]
Remedy learned from the bear[134]
Religion[135]
Churches[137]
Tributes[138]
Coins[139]
Pay of the soldiers[140]
Governmentib.
Tribunals[143]
Successions[144]
Divorcesib.
Punishments[145]
Idiom[146]
Climate[147]
My long stay at Bolcheretsk accounted for[150]
Departure from Bolcheretsk[152]
Arrival at Apatchin[155]
Origin of the ill opinion the inhabitants of Kamtschatka
have of the French[156]
Beniouski[157]
M. Schmaleff quits us[158]
Arrival at Malkin[159]
At Ganal[162]
At Pouschiné[164]
Isbas without chimneysib.
Kamtschadale lamp[165]
Filthiness of the inhabitants[166]
The roads obstructed with snow[167]
Ostrog of Charom[168]
Arrival at Vereknei Kamtschatkaib.
Ivaschin, an unfortunate exile[170]
Colony of peasants[172]
Ostrog of Kirgann[175]
Description of my dress[177]
Visit the baron Stenheil at Machoure[180]
New details respecting the chamans or sorcerers[181]
Alarmed at a report of the Koriacs having revolted[188]
Nikoulka rivers[191]
Volcanos of Tolbatchina[192]
Early marriages[194]
I quit M. Kasloff to go to Nijenei Kamtschatka[195]
Ostrog of Ouchkoff[196]
Of Krestoff[197]
Volcano of Klutchefskaïa[198]
Klutchefskaïa inhabited by Siberian peasantsib.
Ostrog of Kamini[201]
Arrival at Nijeneiib.
Entertainment given by the governor[204]
Tribunals of Nijenei[207]
Account of nine Japanese whom I found there[208]
Departure from Nijenei Kamtschatka[217]
I rejoin M. Kasloff[219]
Overtaken by a tempest, which obliges us to haltib.
Manner in which the Kamtschades made their bed on
the snow[221]
Ostrog of Ozernoi[223]
Of Onkéib.
Of Khalali[225]
Of Ivaschin[227]
Of Drannki[228]
Of Karagui[229]
Yourts described[230]
Singular dress of the children of Karagui[234]
Koriacs supply us with rein deer[236]
Account of the two sorts of Koriacs[237]
A celebrated female dancer[240]
Fondness of the Kamtschadales for tobacco[243]
Departure from Karagui[246]
Manner of our halting in the open country[247]
Our dogs begin to suffer from famine[248]
Soldier sent to Kaminoi for succour[249]
Arrival at Gavenki[250]
Dispute between a sergeant of our company and two
peasants of the village[251]
The inhabitants refuse us fish[254]
Departure from Gavenki[256]
Misled by our guide[257]
Our dogs die of hunger and fatigue[258]
We are apprehhensive of being starved to death in a
desertib.
Obliged to leave our equipage[259]
New distressesib.
Arrival at Poustaretsk[262]
Fruitless attempts to find provisions[263]
Melancholy spectacle exhibited by our dogsib.
Soldier sent to Kaminoi, stopt in his way by tempests[265]
Sergeant Kabechoff sets out for Kaminoi[266]
Description of Poustaretsk and its environs[267]
Food upon which the inhabitants lived during our stay[268]
Their mode of catching rein deer[269]
Occupations of the women[270]
Method of smoking[271]
Dress[272]
M. Schmaleff joins us[273]
Distressing answer from sergeant Kabechoff[274]
M. Kasloff receives news of his promotion[275]
I resolve to leave him[276]
Calm established among the Koriacs[278]
M. Kasloff gives me his dispatches, and the passports
necessary for my safety[280]
My regret at leaving him[281]