Ghijiga has a population of less than three hundred, and closely resembles Petropavlovsk.

Two or three foreign merchants go there annually with goods to exchange for furs which the Russian traders gather.

The inhabitants are Russians or half breeds, the former predominating.

The half breeds are said to possess all the vices of both races with the virtues of neither.
Mr.Bilzukavitch, the Ispravnik of Ghijiga, was a native of Poland, and governed seventy-two thousand square miles of territory, with a population of sixteen hundred taxed males.

His military force comprised thirty Cossacks with five muskets, of which three were unserviceable.