When Major Abasa traveled among them in the winter of 1865, they sometimes refused compensation for their services, and were scrupulously careful to guard the property of their guests.

Once the Major purposely left some trivial articles.

The next day a native brought them forward, and was greatly astonished when pay was offered for his trouble.
"This is your property," was the response; "we could not keep it in our tents, and it was our duty to bring it to you." The wandering Koriaks estimate property in deer as our Indians count in horses.

It is only among the thousands that wealth is eminently respectable.

Some Koriaks own ten or twelve thousand deer, and one fortunate native is the possessor of forty thousand in his own name, (O-gik-a-mu-tik.) Though the wealthiest of his tribe, he does not drive fast horses, and never aspired to a seat in Congress.