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They then made to the dwelling, from which nil the 

 inhabitants had run away, and found therein pieces of 

 Ruffian leather, blades of fmall knives, fliirts, and other 

 things, which had belonged to the Ruffians. All the 

 information which they could procure from the women 

 whom they had taken prifoners, was, that the crew had 

 been killed, and this booty taken away by the inhabi- 

 tants, who had retired to the iiland Unalalhka. Korovin 

 gave thefe women their liberty, and, being apprehenfive 

 of frefli attacks, returned to the haven. 



Towards winter Korovin, with a party of twenty-tv.o 

 men, was fent upon an hunting expedition to the Weft- 

 ern point of Unalaflika : he was accompanied by an 

 Aleutian interpreter, called Ivan Glottoff. Being in- 

 formed by fome iflanders, that a Ruffian fliip, under 

 the command of Ivan SoloviofF*, was then lying before 

 Unalaflika, he immediately rowed towards the haven 

 where flie was at anchor. On the way he had a fliarp 

 encounter with the natives, who endeavoured to pre- 

 vent him from landing : of thefe, ten were killed 

 upon the fpot ; and the remainder fled away, leavino- 

 behind them fome women and children. 



Korovin Haid three days aboard SoloviofF's veffel, 

 and then returned to the place where he had been fo 

 lately attacked. The inhabitants however, for this 



* Chap. XL 



time. 



