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Soon afterwards Korovin ^vas fcnt ^vlth a party of 

 twenty men to coaft the ifland of Unmak, in order to 

 difcover if any part of Medvedeff's crew liad made their 

 efcape from the general malTacre : bat his enquiries 

 were without fuccefs. In the courfe of this expedition^ 

 as he lay at anchor, in September, before a fmall ifland 

 fituated between Umnak and Unalafnka, fome favages 

 rowed towards the Ruffians in two large baidars ; and 

 having lliot at them with iire-arms, though without 

 effecTt, initantly retired. The fame evening Korovin 

 entered a bay of the ifland Umnak, with an intention 

 of palling the night on fliore : but as he came near 

 the coaft, a large number of favages in an hundred bai- 

 dars furrounded and fainted him with a volley of darts. 

 Korovin fired and foon difperfed them ; and immeili- 

 ately made to a large baidar, which he faw at fome dif- 

 tance, in hopes of finding fome Ruffians. He w'as 

 however miftaken ; the iflanders who were aboard land- 

 ed at his approach, and, after fliooting at him from their 

 lire-armsj retired to the mountains,. 



Korovin found there an empty baidar, which he knew 

 to be the fame in which Barnaffieff had failed, when he 

 was fent upon an hunting party. Within were nothing 

 but two hatchets and fome iron points for darts. Three 

 women were feized at the fame time ; and two natives, 

 who refufed to furrender themfelves, w^re put to death. 



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