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with whofe fate they were as yet unacquainted. Their 

 number was now reduced to twelve perfons, among 

 whom were fix Kamtchadals. 



After havinff rowed ten days they landed upon the The RuiTuns 



•-> y V i dilcover the 



beach of the fame illand Umnak ; there they obferved ^f f^^^'^^^^a 

 the remains of a veffel which had been burnt, and faw h?d"be"e>rm°i 



(leied liy the 



fome clothes, fails, and ropes, torn to pieces. At a fmall Nanves. 

 diftance was an empty Rudian dwelUng, and hear it a 

 bath-room, in which they found, to their inexpreflible 

 terror, twenty dead bodies in their clothes. Each of 

 them had a thong of leather, or his own girdle, faftened 

 about the neck, with which he had been dragged along. 

 Korovin and his companions recolle£led them to have 

 been fome of thofe who had failed in Protaffoff's vefTel ; 

 and could diftinguilh among the reft the commander 

 Medvedeff. They difcovered no further traces of the 

 remaining crew ; and as none ever appeared, we have 

 no account of the circumftances with which this ca- 

 taftrophe was attended. 



After having buried his dead countrymen, Korovin Relieved from 



their Diftrcfl'es 



and his companions be'^an to build an hut : thev were ''yi'f '■^2:'"' 

 prevented however from hniiliing it, by the unexpected 

 arrival of Stephen GlottofF-, who came to them with 

 a fmall party by land. Korovin and his companions 

 accordingly joined Glottotf, and rowed the next day to 

 his velTel. 



* See the following Chapter. 



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