PAf^iriC AND r.EERTXCi'S STRAIT. 0^7 



CHAPTER VI. 



Passage from Loo Clioo eastward — Arrive at Port Lloytl in the 

 Yslas del Azobispo — Description of those Islands — Passage to 

 Kamtchatka — Arrival at Petropaulski — Notice of that Place — 

 Dej)arture — Pass Btering's Strait — Enter Kotzebue Sound — 

 Prosecute the Voyage to the Northward — Stopped by the Ice — 

 Return to the Southward — Discover Port Clarence and Grantley 

 Harbour — Description of these Harbours — Return to Kotzebue 

 Sound — Ship strikes upon a Shoal. 



On the 'iotli of May we took our departure from 

 Loo Choo, and steered to the eastward in search of 

 some islands whieh were doul)tfully placed in the 

 charts. On the third day we arrived within a few 

 miles of the situation of Amsterdam Island without 

 seeing any land, and passed it to the northward, as near 

 as the wind would permit. The weather was very un- June. 

 favourable for discovery, being thick and rainy, or 

 misty, with very variable winds. On the 3d of June 

 we regretted exceedingly not having clear weather, as 

 the appearance of plover, sandlings, flocks of shear- 

 waters, and several petrel and albatrosses, created a be- 

 lief that we were near some island. 



Three days afterwards we were upon the spot where 

 the Island of Disappointment is placed in the latest 

 charts. The w^eather was tolerably clear, but no land 

 could be seen ; and as we were so near the situation of 

 a group of islands which, if in existence, would oc- 



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