43 ACCOUNTOFTIIE 



CHAP. IV. 



Voyages from 1753/0 1756. 



Some of the further A\Q\xX\-xn or Fox I{[a.nds /oucJbed at by 

 SerebranikofF's veJfeL — Some account of the Natives. 



' I ^ H R E E velTels were fitted out for the iflands in 

 1753) one by CholodilofF, a fecond by Serebrani- 

 kofF agent for the merchant Rybenfkoy, and the third by 

 Ivan KraffihiikofF a merchant of Kamtchatka. 



choiodiioff's CholodilofF's fliip failed from Kamtchatka, the 1 9th of 



S'.iip fails from 



Kamtchatka Auguft, manned with thirty-four men ; and anchored 

 the aSth before Beering's Ifland, where they propofed to 

 winter, in order to lay-in a flock of provifions : as they 

 were attempting to land, the boat overfet, and nine of 

 the crew were drowned. 



»753- 



June 30, T754, they flood out to fea in quell of new 

 difcoveries : the weather however proving ftormy and 

 foggy, and the fhip fpringing a leak, they were all in 

 danger of perifliing : in this lituation they unexpedledly 

 reached one of the Aleutian iilands, were they lay from 

 the 15th of September until the 9th of July, 1755. In 

 w the 



