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Updated: May 7, 2025
The native Kamschatdales have two kinds of houses of indigenous architecture one for summer, the "balagan," and another to which they retire during the winter, called the "jourt." The balagan is constructed of poles and thatch upon a raised platform to which the Kamschatdale climbs up by means of a notched trunk of a tree.
A hole at the apex is intended for the chimney, but it is also the door: Since there is no other mode of entrance into the jourt, and the interior is reached by descending a notched tree trunk similar to that used in climbing up to the balagan.
Their return to the snug shelter of the balagan is simply an instinct of self-preservation: for the sagacious animals well know, that in winter the lakes and streams will be completely frozen over, and were they to remain abroad, they would absolutely perish either from hunger or cold.
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