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Foyages in ij :)?>^ 17 59? ^i ltd 1^60 — /o /Z*^ Fox Iflands — 

 in the St. Vladimir, yf//W out by TrapefnikofF — and in the 

 Gabriel, by Betflievin — T:}je latter under the command of 

 Puflikareff/^/'/f /(?• Alaklu or Alachikak, one of the re- 

 motejl Eajlern IJiands hitherto vijited — Some account of 

 its inhabitants, and produc/iojiSy which latter are dif- 

 ferent from tbofe of the more IFeJiern IJiands. 



SEPTEMBER 17s 8, the merchant Simeon Krafi!- yo;-f=,°"'= 

 nikoff and Nikiphor Trapefnikoff fitted out two veffels p^rjir'^';?.'' 

 for the piirpofe of catching fea-otters. One of thcfe vef- 

 fels, called the St. Vladimir, failed the 28th under the com- 

 mand of Demetri PaikofF, carrying on board the CoiTac Sila 

 Shaffvrin as coHedtor of the tribute, and a crew of fortv- 

 five men. In twenty- four hours they readied Beering's 

 Ifiand, where they wintered. July 16, 1759, they 

 fleered towards the South in order to difcover land, but 

 being difappointed, they bore away to the North for the 

 Aleutian Ifles : being prevented however by contrary 

 winds from reaching them, they failed ftreight towards 

 the diftant iflands, which are known at prefent under 

 the name of Lyffie Oftrova or the Fox Iflands. Septem- A.nvni ^t ii,*- 



Fox IlUnJ. 



ber I , they reached the firft of thefe, called by the natives 

 Atchu, and by the Ruffians Goreloi or the Burnt Illand: 

 I but 



