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of a fea voyage, they built a veflel one hundred and 

 thirty vcrfts above Anadyr, after having employed two 

 years and five months in its conltrudlion. 



The narrative of their expedition is as follows. In Narrative of 



tc Voyagir. 



1 748, they failed down the river Anadyr, and through 

 two bays, called Kopeikina and Onemenfkaya, where they 

 found many fand Banks, but pafTed round them without 

 difficulty. From thence they fleered into the exterior 

 gulph, and waited for a favourable wind. Here they faw 

 feveral Tfchutfki, who appeared upon the heights fingly 

 and not in bodies, as if to reconnoitre ; which made 

 them cautious. They had defcended the river and its 

 bays in nine days. In jiaffing the large opening of the 

 exterior bay, they fleered between the beach, that lies to 

 the left, and a rock near it ; where, at about an hundred 

 and twenty yards from the rock, the depth of w^ater is 

 from three to four fathoms. From the opening they 

 fleered E. S. E. about fifty verlls, in about four fathom 

 water ; then doubled a fandy point, which runs out di- 

 recSlly againft the Tfliuktflii coaft, and thus reached the 

 open fea. 



From the loth of July to the 30th, they were driven 

 about by tempeftuous winds, at no great diftance from 

 the mouth of the Anadyr; and ran up the fmall river 

 Katirka, upon whofc banks dwell the Koriacs, a people 



G 1 tributary 



