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The following day they fcooped out a cavity at the 

 foot of a moiintaia fituated about three veriis from the 

 haven, and covered it with a piece of a fail. In the 

 evening they returned to the haven, and found there an 

 in:iage of a faint and a jirayer book ; all the tackle and 

 lading were taken away, excepting the facks for proviiion. 



Thefe liicks vrere made of leather : the natives liad 

 ript them up probably to fee if they contained any iron, 

 and had left them, together with the proviiion, behind 

 as ufelefs. The Ruffians coiled;ed all that remained, and 

 dra^-fjed as much as thev were able to carrv into the 

 mountains to their retreat, where they lived in a very 

 wretched ll:ate from the 9th of December to the 2d of 

 February, 1764. 



Mean while they employed themfelves in making a 

 little baidar, which they covered with the leather of the 

 facks. Having drawn it at night from the mountains to 

 the fea, they rowed without waiting for break of day 

 along the Northern coaft of Unalafchka, in order to reach 

 Trapefnikoff's veffel, which, as they had reafon to think, 

 lay at anchor fomewhere upon the coaft. They rowed 

 at fome diftance from the ffiore, and by that means pair- 

 ed three habitations unperceived. The following day 

 they obferved at fome difcance five iflanders in a baidar, 

 who upon feeing them made to Makufliinfk, before 



which 



