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1778. twenty or thirty other cargoes, each conducfted by one man 



Oilober. 



I took notice, that the firfl thmg they did, afcer landing, was 

 to make a fmall teat for Ifmyloff, of materials which they 

 brought with them ; and then they made others for them- 

 felves, of their canoes and paddles, which they covered 

 with grafs ; fo that the people of the village were at no 

 trouble to find them lodging. Ifmyloff having invited us 

 into his tent, fet before us fome dried falraon and berries ; 

 which, I was fatisfied, was the beft cheer he had. He ap- 

 peared to be a fenfible intelligent man; and I felt no fmall 

 mortification in not being able to converfe with him, imlefs 

 by figns, afiifted by figures, and other characflers ; which 

 however were a very great help. I defired to fee him on 

 -,.u ,j board the next day ; and accordingly he came, with all his 



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attendants. Indeed, he had moved into our neighbourhood, 

 for the exprcfs purpofe of waiting upon us. 



I was in hopes to have had by him, the chart which his 

 three countrymen had promifed ; but I was difappointed. 

 However, he allured me I ihould have it ; and he kept his 

 word. I found that he was very well acquainted with the 

 geography of thefe parts, and with all the difcoveries that 

 had been made in them by the Ruflians. On feeing the 

 modern maps, he at once pointed out their errors. He told 

 me, he had accompanied Lieutenant Syndo, or Synd as he 

 called him, in his expedition to the North ; and, according 

 to his account, they did not proceed farther than the 

 Tfchukotfkoi Nos, or rather than the bay of St. Laurence ; 

 for he pointed on our chart to the very place where I landed. 

 From thence, he faid, they went to an illand in latitude 63° 

 upon whicii they did not land, nor could he tell me its 

 name. But I fliould guefs it to be the fame to which I gave 

 the name of Gierke's Ifland. To what place Synd went 



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