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few of them pollefs iron ones : their only weapons are 

 arrows with points of bone or flint, which they (lioot 

 from a wooden inftrnment. There are no trees upon 

 the iiland : it produces however the cow-parfnip*, which 

 grows at Kamtchatka. The climate is by no means 

 fevere, for the fnow does not lie upon the ground above 

 a month in the year. 



rcpam.reof KraffilnikofF's veffel failed in 17C4, and anchored on, 

 ^''^''' the 1 8th of October before Beering's Ifland ; where all 



the lliips which make to the New Difcovered Illands are 

 accuftomed to winter, in order to procure a ftock of falted 

 provifions from the fea-cows and other amphibious ani- 

 mals, that are found in great abundance. Here they 

 refitted the veflel, which had been damaged by driving 

 upon her anchor; and having laid in a fufficient ftore 

 of all neceflaries, weighed the ill of Auguft, 1754. 

 The loth they were in light of an ifland, whofe coaft 

 was lined with fuch a number of inhabitants, that they 

 durft not venture afliore. AccorcHngly they flood out 

 to fea, and being overtaken by a ftorm, they were reduced 

 to great dilfrefs for want of water ; at length they were 

 driven upon Copper Ifland, where they landed ; and. 

 having taken in wood and water, they again fet fail. 

 Shipwrecked yhgy wcrc beat back however by contrary winds, and 



upon Copper J J J i 



w-ni- dropped both their anchors near the fliore ; but the 



ftorm increaflng at night, both the cables were broken, 

 and the fliip daflied to pieces upon the coafl:. All the 



* Heracleum. 

 A crew 



