po ACCOUNTOFTHE 



Winters upon 11 ^-j g lacUnff afhorc. They ftaid here until the firft of 



Btenngs '*'•' •.»■»■«' ^ j 



iflami. Auguft, 1763 : during that time they killed about 500 



ar6tic foxes and 20 fea-otters ; the latter animals re- 

 forted lefs frequently to tMs illand, in confequence of 

 the difturbance given them by the Ruffian hunters. 



Korovin, having colledled a fufficient ftore of provi- 

 fion, feveral fkins of fea-cows for tlie coverings of bai- 

 dars, and feme iron which remained from the wreck, of 

 Beerings fliip, prepared for his departure. Upon his 

 arrival at Beering's Illand the preceding autumn, he 

 found there a veffel fitted out by Jacob Protaffoff, mer- 

 chant of Tiumen, under the command of Dennis Med- 

 vedeff*. Korovin had entered into a formal contradl 

 with Medvedeff for the divilion of the furs. Here he 

 took on board ten of Medvedeff's crew, and gave him 

 feven in return. 



Auguft I, Korovin put to fea from Beering's Ifland with 



thirty-feven men, and Medvedeff with forty-nine. They 



failed without coming in fight of the Aleutian Ifles : on 



Reaches Una- the I t;th, Kotovin made Unalaffika, where Glottoff lay 



Islhka. "^ 



at anchor, and Medvedeff reached Umnak. Korovia 

 received the news of the latter's fafe arrival, firft by 

 fome iflanders, and afterwards by letters ; both veffels 



* This is the fourth veffel which failed in 1762. As the whole crew 

 was maffacred by the favages, we have no account of the voyage. 

 Short mention of this maffacre is occafionally made in this and the fol- 

 lowing chapters. 



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