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cay ; so that we were but little benefited by the great 

 quantities of berries every where found ashore. In 

 order to avail ourselves as much as possible of this 

 useful refreshment, one third of the people, by turns, 

 had leave to go and pick them. Considerable quan- 

 tities of them were also procured from the natives. 

 It' there were any seeds of the scurvy in either ship, 

 these berries, and the use of spruce Deer, which they 

 had to drink every other day, effectually eradicated 

 them. 



We also got plenty of fish, at first mostly salmon, 

 both fresh and dried, which the natives brought us. 

 Some of the fresh salmon was in high perfection, but 

 there was one sort, which we called hook-nosed, from 

 the figure of its head, that was but indifferent. We 

 drew the seine several times, at the head of the bay, 

 and caught a good many salmon trout, and once a 

 a halibut that weighed two hundred and fifty-four 

 pounds. The fishery failing, we had recourse to 

 hooks and lines. A boat was sent out every morn- 

 ing, and seldom returned without eight or ten 

 halibut, which was more than sufficient to serve all 

 our people ; the halibut were excellent, and there 

 were few who did not prefer them to salmon. Thus 

 we not only procured a supply of fish for present con- 

 sumption, but had some to carry with us to sea. 

 This enabled us to make considerable saving of our 

 provisions, which was an object of no small im- 

 portance. 



On the 8th, I received by the hands of an Oona- 

 lashka man, named Derramoushk, a very singular 

 present, considering the place. It was a rye loaf, or 

 rather a pye made in the form of a loaf; for it in- 

 closed some salmon, highly seasoned with pepper. 

 This man had the like present for Captain Clerke, 

 and a note for each of us, written in a character 

 which none of us could read. It was natural to suppose 

 that this present was from some Russians now in our 

 neighbourhood, and therefore we sent, by the same 



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