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A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2

Chapter 11: FOOTNOTES:
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A first-person account of a multi-year global voyage that records stops at Kamtschatka, New Archangel (the Ross settlement), California, the Sandwich Islands, the Pescadores, the Ladrones, the Philippines, and St. Helena. It blends precise navigational and hydrographic observations with descriptive passages about colonial outposts, indigenous encounters, maritime commerce, and daily life aboard ship, and includes natural-history notes and a zoological appendix, supported by charts and illustrative plates.

 Species.
Mammalia28
Birds165
Amphibia33
Fishes90
Annulides40
Crustacea127
Insects1400
Arachnides28
Cephalopodes20
Gasteropodes162
Acephali45
Tunicati28
Cirrhipedes21
Echinodermates60
Acalephi63
Zoophytes90
 Fr. Eschscholtz.

Dorpat, 7th January, 1828.

THE END.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] A kind of urn in use throughout all Russia, called a Samowar, or self-boiler. It generally stands in the middle of the tea-table, and is furnished with a large kettle for water, and a space filled with fire to keep it boiling.

[2] The baidars, or canoes of the Aleutians, are generally twelve feet long and twenty inches deep, the same breadth in the middle, and pointed at each end. The smaller are suited only for one man, the larger for two or three. The skeleton and the keel are made of very thin deal planks, fastened together with the sinews of the whale, and covered with the skin of the sea-horse cleared of the hair. It has a kind of deck made of this skin, but leaving an aperture for each person the canoe is intended to carry. These sit in the bottom with their legs stretched out, and their bodies rising through the apertures, which are but just large enough to allow them to move and row conveniently. The space between their bodies and the deck being so well fitted with bladders, that no drop of water can enter.

These baidars are moved very rapidly by oars, and the Aleutians put to sea with them in all weathers.

[3] This applies only to the lower classes; the Yeris are nearly all as large as at Tahaiti.

[4] This kind was known to Fabricius, for Copris Midas is a variety of the male, and Gigas is the female. The former has erroneously been deemed a native of America.