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veffel for the purpofe of colle6ling the tribute. They failed 

 in Auguft, 1749, from the Kamtchatka river; and re- 

 entered it the 1 6th of the fame month, 1753, '^'^'itli a 

 large cargo of furs. In the fpring of the fame year, 

 they had touched upon an unknown ifland, probably one 

 of the Aleiitians, where feveral of the inhabitants were 

 prevailed upon to pay a tribute of fea- otter fk-ins. The 

 names of the iflanders who had been made tributary, 

 were Igya, Oeknu, Ogogoektack, Shabukiauck, Alak, 

 Tutun, Ononuflian, Pvotogei, Tfchinitu, Vatfch, Afliagat, 

 Avyjanilhaga, Unafliayupu, Lak, Yanlliugalik, Umgali- 

 kan, Shati., Kyipago, and Oloflikot ■■'.; another Aleutian 

 had contributed tl^i-ee fea-otters. They brt)ught with 

 them 320 beft fea-otter flans, 480 of the fecond, and 

 400 of the third fort, 500 female and middle aged, and 

 520 medwedki or young ones,. 



Xew^rofdvi"" Andrew Tolftyk, a merchant of Selenginfk, having 

 ifle'sri749".'^" obtained permiffion from the chancery of Bollheretfk-, 



refitted the fame Hiip which had made a former voyage; 



he f^iiledfrom Kamtchatka Augull: the 19th, 1749, '^'^'-^ 



returned July the 3d, 1752. 



According to the commander's account, the fliip lay 

 at anchor from the bth of September, 1749, ^° ^^^ 20th 



* The auihor here remarks in a note, that the proper names of the 

 Hlanders mentioned in this place, and in other parts, bear a furprifing 

 r^femblance, both in their found and termination, to thole of the Green- 

 landers. 



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