July 1853- Petrovaulski, Kamtschatta burnt to prevent their falling into the hands of the English who visited this place recently, again, and found none to oppose them. In fact they might have taken possession in two hours after the battle of last year, for the place was then unknown to them; however, deserted, but disheartened by their hot reception and great loss, they immediately left the bay. In a walk about the town I examined the houses, or more properly the huts of the inhabitants, which are very small, mostly of one story, and built in part part of earth or sod, the upper half, and roof only being of wood. Some houses much larger and built entirely of wood, had evidently belonged to the governor and other dignitaries. The church was a quaint old structure, with square towers and many gables, built of logs, and curiously partitioned internally after the manner of the Greek Church - a highly ornamented and gilded apartment for the altar at one end, an entrance hall at the other: the intermediate space, a body of the church being ori-