8o ACCOUNT OF THE 



CHAP. VIII. 



Voyage of the Zacharias aiid Elizabeth, ftted out by Kul- 

 koff, and co^nmanded by Drufinin — They fail to Umnak 

 and Unalafhka, and winter upon the latter (/land — I'he 

 veffel defiroyed^ and all the crew., except four^ jnurdered 

 by the [/landers — The adventures of thefe four Ruffians, 

 and their wonderful efcope. 



S II A L L here barely mention that a veffel was fitted 

 out in Auguft, 1760, at the expence of Terrenti 

 Tfebaeflkoi : but I fliall have occation to be very cir- 

 cumftantial in my accounts concerning feveral others, 

 which failed during the following years : more copious 

 information concerning the Fox Iflands having been 

 procured from thefe voyages, although for the moft 

 part unfortunate, than from all the preceding ones. 



In 1762 four velTels failed for the Fox Iflands : of 

 thefe only one returned fafe to Kamtchatka. 



Voyage of rpj ^^ ^^.^g ^l-^g Zacharias and Elizabeth, fitted out 



Drulinin in the * •» ^^ 



Ifelbett" "' by Kulkoff, a merchant of Vologda and Company, under 

 '''' the command of Drufinin, and manned by thirty-four 



Ruffians, and three Kamtchadals. 



September 



