[86] Captain Krusenstern, as may have been already perceived, thinks very
    highly of the Kamtschadale character.  In his judgment, the only
    objection to it applies to that superinduced propensity in which the
    avaricious merchant has so often found his account, though to the ruin
    of the unthinking individuals subjected to his temptations.  Their
    honesty is greatly extolled; and a cheat is as rare among the
    Kamtschadales as a man of property.  So great is the confidence placed
    in them in this respect, that it is quite usual, we are told, for
    travellers, on arriving at an ostrog, to give their whole effects,
    even their stock of brandy, &c. into the hands of the tayon, and
    there is no instance of any one having been robbed to the smallest
    extent.  “Lieutenant Koscheleff,” says K., “with his accustomed
    simplicity, told me that he had once been sent by his brother, the
    governor, with thirteen thousand roubles to distribute among the
    different towns; that every evening he made over his box with the
    money to the tayon of the ostrog where he slept, and felt much easier,
    having so disposed of it, than he would perhaps have done in any inn
    in St Petersburgh.”  No doubt, the superior purity of the country air
    would occasion some difference in his feelings!  The hospitality of the
    Kamtschadales forms another topic of eulogium.  With such moral
    virtues, then, in alliance with great industry, and considerable
    intelligence, it is not to be wondered, that Krusenstern should speak
    of the probable extinction of this race as a most alarming calamity. 
    But we have seen that hitherto little care has been manifested to
    prevent its occurrence.  The very subject we are now on presents us
    with another sample of the gross impolicy, not to speak of inhumanity
    or injustice, that has been shewn towards these most valuable people. 
    The following passage from Krusenstern may be allowed to warrant the
    most severe opinion we can possibly form of any government, that could
    require such services from its slaves.  “The necessity of the
    Kamtschadales in Kamtschatka is sufficiently proved, by their being
    every where the guides through the country, and by their conveying the
    mail, which they do likewise, free of expence.  In the winter, they are
    obliged to conduct travellers and estafettes from one ostrog to
    another; they supply the dogs of those who travel with jukulla; they
    also lodge the travellers; this, however, they are not obliged to do. 
    This hospitable people has, of its own accord, engaged to lodge every
    traveller, and to feed his dogs, without demanding any remuneration. 
    In every ostrog there is a supply of fish set apart for this purpose. 
    In general, the governor and