54 ACCOUNTOFTHE 



CHAP. V. 



Voyages from 1756/0 1758. 

 \>^g^°t, CEPTEMBER 17, 1 71; 6, the vefTel Andrean and 



AndieanTol- ^^ ' ' i ^ i 



SklitiaV" Natalia, fitted out by Andrean Tolftyk, merchant 

 of Selenginfk, and manned with thirty-eight Ruffians 

 and Kamtchadals, failed from the mouth of the Kamt- 

 chatka river. The autumnal ftorms coming on, and a 

 fcarcity of proviiions enfuing, they made to Beering's 

 IHand, where they continued until the 14th of June 

 1757. As no fea-otters came on fhore that winter, they 

 killed nothing but feals, fea-lions, and fea-cows ; whofe 

 flefli ferved them for provifion, and their fkins for the 

 coverings of baidars. 



June 13, 1757, they weighed anchor, and after 

 eleven days failing came to Ataku, one of the Aleutian 

 ifles difcovered by NevodfikofF. Here they found the 

 inhabitants, as well of that, as of the other two iflands, 

 aflembled ; thefe iflanders had juft taken leave of the 

 crew of Trapefnikoff's vefTel, which had failed for 

 Kamtchatka. The Ruffians feized this opportunity of 

 perfuading them to pay tribute; with this view they 

 2 beckoned 



