Note 13 — Chapter XLVIII · KAMCHATKA.
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The industrious little creatures store up their grain and roots underground, covering them, it is said, before their migration, with poisonous plants, to hinder other animals from eating them. The Kamchatdales, in times of necessity, help themselves to these stores, but do not fail to replace what they take by caviar, or remains of fish, that they may not alarm such benevolent purveyors.