42 ACCOUNTOFTHE 



Vu.'Sf Augvift 3, 17:50, the vefTd Simeon and John, fitted 



out by the above-mentioned Wfevidoff, agent for the 

 Ruffian mercliant A. Rybenllioi, and manned with four- 

 teen Ruffians (who were partly merchants and partly 

 hunters) and thirty Kamtchadals, failed out for the 

 difcovery of new iflands, under the command of the 

 Colfac Vorobieff. They were driven by a violent current 

 and terapeiluous weather to a fmall defert ifland, whofe 

 pofition is not determined ; but which was probably one 

 of thofe that lie near Beering's Ifland. The ffiip being 

 fo fliattered by the ftorm, that it was no longer in a 

 condition to keep the fea, Vorobieff built another fmall 

 Veflel with drift-wood, which he called Jeremiah ; in 

 which he arrived at Kamtchatka in Autumn, 1752. 



Upon the above-mentioned ifland were caught 700 

 old and 120 cub fea-otters, 1900 blue foxes, 5700 black 

 fea-bears, and 1 3 1 o Kotiki, or cub fea-bears. 



A voyage made about this time from Anadyrfk de- 

 ferves to be mentioned. 



NovikoirL.i Augufl 24, 1 749, Simeon Novikoff of Yakutfk, and 

 Aaid^rik!'"'" Ivan BacchofF of Ullyug, agents for Ivan Shilkin, failed 

 from Anadyrfk into the mouth of the Kamtchatka river. 

 They affigned the infecurity of the roads as their reafon 

 for coming from Anadyrfk to Kamtchatka by fea ; on 

 this account, having determined to rifk all the dangers 



of 



