huigal

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The diet of the Kamtschatdales, is chiefly fish, variously prepared; huigal, which is neither more nor less than fish laid in a pit until putrid, is a luxury with this people! They are fond of caviar, made of roes of fish, and scarcely less disgusting than huigal.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829