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"I then proposed to him to go by land to Kamschatka, cross in some of the Russian vessels to Nootka Sound, fall down into the latitude of the Missouri, and penetrate to, and through, that to the United States."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Modified traces of a like practice are also found … as in Borneo, in Kamtchatka, and in Greenland."