Dogs trained to harness are worth from ten to forty roubles (dollars) each, according to their quality.

Leaders bring high prices on account of their superior docility and the labor of training them.
Epidemics are frequent among dogs and carry off great numbers of them.
Hydrophobia is a common occurrence.
The Russian inhabitants of Kamchatka are mostly descended from Cossacks and exiles.

There is a fair but not undue proportion of half breeds, the natural result of marriage between natives and immigrants.
There are about four hundred Russians at Petropavlovsk, and the same number at each of two other points.

The aboriginal population is about six thousand, including a few hundred dwellers on the Kurile Islands.
No exiles have been sent to Kamchatka since 1830.

One old man who had been forty years a colonist was living at Avatcha in 1866.