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Kamtschatka Dance.
perfume the whole apartment with a smell of oil and fish , to which European noses are too little accustomed to find out its fragrance . As the dances of all these nations have ever been imitative , and in fact nothing but a sort of pantonine , I asked what two of the women , who had just taken such violent exercise , had meant to express ? I was told that they had represented a bear-hunt . 'The woman who rolled on the ground acted the animal ; and the Other " , who kept turning round her , the hunter ; but if the bears could speak , and were to see such a pantomine , they would certainly complain of being so awkwardly imitated . '
Unfortunate Iv Aschin.
UNFORTUNATE IV ASCHIN .
ON the departure of M . De la Perouse from St . Peter and St . Paul , Mr . KaslofF loaded him with presents ; , but as he was only rich in commodities forthe Savage-market , he had nothing worthy-Mr . Kasloff ' s acceptance in return except the . narrative of Cooke ' s third voyage , with which he was much p leased , especially as he had in his suite almost all the personages whom the editor has brought forward the stage—Mr . SchmalofFthe good vicar of
Paraupon , tounka , and the unfortunate Ivaschkin . To them he translated all the passages that concerned them , and at the rehearsal of each they repeated that every word was strictly true . The Serjeant alone , who ¦ then commanded at the harbour of St . Peter and St .. Paul , was dead . The others enjoyed the . best state of health , and still inhabited the countryexcept Major Behmwho had returned to Petersburg , and
, , Port , who resided at Irkoutsk . I testified my surprise to Mr . KaslofF at finding the aged Ivaschkin in Kamtschatka ,. the English accounts stating that he had at . length obtained permission to go and live at Okhotsk .
' We could not help feeling great concern for the fate of this unfortunate man , when told that his only crime was some indiscreet expressions concerning the Empress Elizabeth , at the breaking up of a convivial party , when his reason was disordered by wine . He was then undet twenty , was . an officer in the guards , belonged to a'Russian family of distinction , and could boast of a handsome face , which neither time nor misfortune have been able to . alter . Pie was cashiered ,
and banished to the interior of Kamtschatka , after having suffered the punishment of the knout , and had his nostrils slit . The Empress Catharine II . granted this unfortunate man a pardon several years ago : but a stay of more than fifty years in the midst of the vast forests of . Kamtschatka ; the bitter recollection ofthe ignominious punishment he sufferedperhapsalsoa secret sentiment of hatred against an
; , , authority which punished so cruelly a fault , that was rendered excusable by circumstances ; these various motives rendered him insensible to a tardy act of justice ; and he purposed ending his days in Siberia . '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Kamtschatka Dance.
perfume the whole apartment with a smell of oil and fish , to which European noses are too little accustomed to find out its fragrance . As the dances of all these nations have ever been imitative , and in fact nothing but a sort of pantonine , I asked what two of the women , who had just taken such violent exercise , had meant to express ? I was told that they had represented a bear-hunt . 'The woman who rolled on the ground acted the animal ; and the Other " , who kept turning round her , the hunter ; but if the bears could speak , and were to see such a pantomine , they would certainly complain of being so awkwardly imitated . '
Unfortunate Iv Aschin.
UNFORTUNATE IV ASCHIN .
ON the departure of M . De la Perouse from St . Peter and St . Paul , Mr . KaslofF loaded him with presents ; , but as he was only rich in commodities forthe Savage-market , he had nothing worthy-Mr . Kasloff ' s acceptance in return except the . narrative of Cooke ' s third voyage , with which he was much p leased , especially as he had in his suite almost all the personages whom the editor has brought forward the stage—Mr . SchmalofFthe good vicar of
Paraupon , tounka , and the unfortunate Ivaschkin . To them he translated all the passages that concerned them , and at the rehearsal of each they repeated that every word was strictly true . The Serjeant alone , who ¦ then commanded at the harbour of St . Peter and St .. Paul , was dead . The others enjoyed the . best state of health , and still inhabited the countryexcept Major Behmwho had returned to Petersburg , and
, , Port , who resided at Irkoutsk . I testified my surprise to Mr . KaslofF at finding the aged Ivaschkin in Kamtschatka ,. the English accounts stating that he had at . length obtained permission to go and live at Okhotsk .
' We could not help feeling great concern for the fate of this unfortunate man , when told that his only crime was some indiscreet expressions concerning the Empress Elizabeth , at the breaking up of a convivial party , when his reason was disordered by wine . He was then undet twenty , was . an officer in the guards , belonged to a'Russian family of distinction , and could boast of a handsome face , which neither time nor misfortune have been able to . alter . Pie was cashiered ,
and banished to the interior of Kamtschatka , after having suffered the punishment of the knout , and had his nostrils slit . The Empress Catharine II . granted this unfortunate man a pardon several years ago : but a stay of more than fifty years in the midst of the vast forests of . Kamtschatka ; the bitter recollection ofthe ignominious punishment he sufferedperhapsalsoa secret sentiment of hatred against an
; , , authority which punished so cruelly a fault , that was rendered excusable by circumstances ; these various motives rendered him insensible to a tardy act of justice ; and he purposed ending his days in Siberia . '