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which was flung out to them. Two men remained with 

 the baidars, and were afterwards carried by feme Kamt- 

 chadals to New Kamtchatkoi Oftrog. The fliip without- 

 one fail remaining was driven along the coaft of Kamt- 

 chatka towards Avatcha, and about feventy vcrfts from, 

 that harbour ran into the bay of Kalatzoff on the 25th 

 of September. Their cargo confided of the fkins of 

 900 old and young fea-otters, and of 350 foxes. 



PuflikarefF and his crew had during this voyage be- 

 haved with fuch inhumanity towards the iilanders, that 

 they were brought to trial in the year 1764; and the 

 above-mentioned account is taken from the concurring 

 evidence of feveral witnefles. It appears alfo, that they 

 brought away from Atchu and Amleg two Aleutian men 

 and three boys, Ivan an Aleutian interpreter, and above 

 twenty women and girls whom they debauched. Ivan, 

 and one of the boys whom they called Mofes, were the 

 only perfons who arrived at Kamtchatka. Upon their 

 iirfl approach to that coaft, fourteen women were fent 

 afliore to dig roots and to gather berries. Of thefe, two 

 ran away, and a third was killed, as they were returning 

 to the fliip by one Gorelin : upon this the others in a fit 

 of defpair leaped into the fea and were drowned. All 

 the remaing Aleutians, excepting the two perfons above- 

 mentioned, were immediately thrown, overboard by Pufli- 

 karefF's order. The account which follows, although it 

 is found in the depofitions, deferves not to be entirely 



credited in all particulars. 



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