Show life in Kamsch the ab originals of are ard and korsaks Kori aks but little littie is known of their origin or iKin and both have decreased in numbers since the russian occupation the count country ir is ia now chiefly peopled by aus rus siana and by a race the product of intermarriage ter between thern and the aboriginal kam dales this new race sas haa chambers chamberss 1 journal it is id usual to distinguish as kanischak kans and a greedy disagreeable kind of people they seem to be they are of a low order and live in summer either in wretched huts b bv the river banks or in lofts above the sheds aheda in which t they hey hang bang their fish la in winter they have semi sew I 1 subterranean dwellings their habits and diet are alike filthy and their notions not ions of honesty meagre the pure on the other hand appear to be a kindly and nor hot bitable people the houses of the better class of natives of russian blood are usually lop log built unpainted containing usually two rooms rooms and sometimes but rarely four rooms la in which will be found a few chairs a rough deal table a tawdry gilt of the russian and any number of cockroaches and unmentionable insects the houses are in many places raised above the ground either upon stones like hay bay stac ksor upon low wooden pill pillarist arsT e floors are boarded and the house is warmed by means of a hugh brick stove built in between the rooms develops immense me dierof diet of this upper class is besides f fish s h milk sour asbur cream rye bread and hi bilberries bil I 1 berries ane bilberry seems to be the only fruit in A few patches of potatoes and cabbages occasionally casio nally surround the better villages but unless at melcora Mel cova there are no Ce cereals reale although it is said that rye would do very well in some parts of the valley of the Kamsch river the harvest of the river and the 1 sea ea is enough however to occupy al all the time and thoughts of the and he has neither the leisure nor the taste for agriculture |