RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES. 



tion of the above-mentioned interpreter, to pay them a 

 vifit at KayachUj they immediately returned to the fliip. 



Near the place where they lay at anchor, a rivulet 

 falls into the bay ; it flows from a lake that is about 

 two or three verfts in circumference, and which is form- 

 ed from a number of fmall fprings. Its courfe is about 

 eight verfts long ; and in fummer feveral fpecies of fal- 

 mon and other fifli, fimilar to thofe which are found at 

 Kamtchatka, afcend the ftream as far as the lake. 



LafarofF was employed in fifliingin this rivulet, when 

 the Toigon of Kanaga, accompanied with a confiderable 

 number of the natives in fifteen baidars, arrived at the 

 fhip : he was hofpitably entertained, and received feveral 

 prefents. The Ruffians feized this opportunity of per- 

 fuading the iflanders to acknowledge themfelves fubjed; 

 to the Emprefs, and to pay a regular tribute ; to which 

 they made no great obje6lion. By means of the inter- 

 preter, the following information was obtained from the 

 Toigon. The natives chiefly fubfift upon dried fifli and 

 other fca animals. They catch '-turbot of a very large 

 fize, and take feals by means of harpoons, to which they 

 faften bladders. They lifli for cod with bone hooks, 

 and lines made of a long and tough fpecies of fea-weed, 



* The author adds, that thcfe turbot [paltus] weigh occafionally feven 

 or eight pood. 



L which 



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