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They procured alfo four other iflanders with their wives, 

 who dug roots for them : and thus the winter pafled 

 away without any difturbance. 



In the fpring the hunting parties returned; during 

 thefe excurfions one man alone was killed upon the iiland 

 Atach, and his fire-arms taken away by the natives. 

 -June 1760, the fame parties were fent again to the fame 

 iflands. ShafFyrin, who headed one of the parties, was 

 foon afterwards killed, with eleven men, by the inha- 

 bitants of Atach, but for what reafon is not known. — 

 Drufmin received the firft information of this maflacre 

 from feme inhabitants of Sitkin, where he then was ; 

 and immediately fet out with the remaining hunters to 

 join their companions, who \vere left on board. Al- 

 though he fucceeded in regaining the vefTel, their num- 

 ber was by this time fo confiderably reckiced that their 

 fituation appeared very dangerous : he was foon how^ever 

 relieved from his apprehenfions by the arrival of the 

 merchant Betflievin's vefTel at the ifland of Atchu *. 

 The two crews entered into partnerfliip : the St. Vla- 

 dimir received twenty-two men, and transferred eleven 

 of her own to the other velfel. The former wintered 

 at Amlach, and the latter continued at anchor before 

 Atchu. 



^ Atach and Atchu are two names for the fame ifland, called alfo b/ 

 the Ruflians Goreloi or Burnt Ifland. 



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