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above 400 red, greyifh, and black foxes, and colleilied 

 twelve pood of fea-horfe teeth. 



In June, of the following year, the two cre\vs were 

 diftributed equally on board the two veflels: Kraffilni- 

 kofF's remained at Amlach, with an intention of return- 

 ing to Kamtchatka, and Belllievin's put to fea from Atchu 

 in queft of other iflands. They touched firft at Umnak Departs from 



tlience, 



where they met NikiphorofF's veffel. Here they took 

 in wood and water, and repaired their fails: they then 

 failed to the moft remote illand Alakfu*, or Alachfliak, S;;i: "p"*" 

 where, having laid up the fliip in a bay, they built huts, 

 and made preparations for wintering. This illand was 

 very well inhabited, and the natives behaved at firft in a 

 very friendly manner, for they trafficked with the Ruf- • 

 Hans, and even delivered up nine of their children as 

 lioftages ; but fuch was the lawlefs and irregular beha- 

 viour of the crew, that the iflanders were foon irritated 

 and provoked to hoftilities. 



In January 1762, GolodofFand Puflikareff went with 

 a party of twenty men along the fliore ; and, as they were 

 attempting to violate Ibme girls vipon the iflaud Uny- 

 umga, were lurprifed by a numerous body of the na- 

 tives: GolodofF and another Ruffian were killed, and 

 tliree were wounded. Not long afterwards the watch of 



* This is probably the fame ifland which is laid down in Krenitzin's 

 ehart under the name of Alaxa. 



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