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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.
Here, too, the sledges and sledge harness are kept; and the dogs, of which every family owns a large pack, use this lower story as a sleeping place. The winter-house or "jourt," is constructed very differently.
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.
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