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'778- there by the middle of May, the enfuing fummer. In con- 



v—.^- jj fequence of this refohition, I gave Captain Gierke orders 



how to proceed, in cafe of feparation ; appointing Sandwich 



Illands for the firft place of rendezvous, and the harbour 



of Pecropaulowfka, in Kamtfchatka, for the fecond. 



Soon after we were out of the harbour, the wind veered 

 to the South Eaft and Eaft South Eaft, which, by the even- 

 ing, caj'ried us as far as the Wellern part of Oonalaflika. 

 where we got the wind at South. With this we flretched to 

 Tuefday 27. thc Wedward, till feven o'clock the next morning, when we 

 wore, and flood to the Eaft. The wind, by this time, had 

 incrcafed in fuch a manner as to reduce us to our three 

 courfes. It blew in very heavy fqualls, attended with rain, 

 hail, and fnow. 



Wednef.28. At nine o'clock in the morning of the 20th, the ifland of 

 Oonalafhka bore South Eaft, four leagues diftant. We then 

 wore and flood to the Weftward. The ftrength of the gale 

 was now over, and toward evening, the little wind that blew 

 infcnfibly veered round to the Eaft, where it continued but 

 a fhort time before it got to North Eaft, and increafed to a 

 very hard gale with rain. I fteered firft to the Southward ; 

 and as the wind inclined to the North and North Weft, I 

 fleered more Wefterly. 



ThurfJay29. On the 29th, at half paft fix in the morning, we faw land 

 extending from Eaft by South to South by Weft, fuppofed to 

 be thc ifland Amoghta. At eight, finding that wc could 

 not weather the ifland, as the wind had now veered to thc 

 Weftward, I gave over plying, and bore away for Oona- 

 laflika, with a view of going to the Northward and Eaft- 

 ward of that ifland, not daring to attempt a paflage to thc 

 South Eaft of it, in 'iK:> hard a gale of wind. At the time 

 7 we 



