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fhe people on board ; and as Ivan Glottoff, the Aleutian 

 interpreter, did not well underftand the language of thefe 

 illanders, they foon afterwards returned with a boy whom 

 they had formerly taken prifoner from Ifanak, one of 

 the iflands which lie to the Weft of Kadyak. Him the 

 Aleutian interpreter perfectly underftood : and by his 

 means every neceffary explanation could be obtained 

 from the iflanders. 



In this manner they converfed with the favages, and 

 endeavoured to perfuade them to become tributary ; they 

 ufed alfo every argument in their power to prevail upon 

 them to give up the boy for an interpreter; but all their 

 entreaties were for the prefent without efFedt. The fa- 

 vages rowed back to the cliff called Aktalin, which lies 

 about three verfts to the South of Kadyak, where they 

 feemed to have habitations.. 



On the 6th of September Kaplin was fent with thir- 

 teen men to the cliff, to treat peaceably with the iflanders.. 

 He found there ten huts, from which about an hundred, 

 of the natives came out. They behaved feemingly in a 

 friendly manner, and anfwered the interpreter by the 

 boy, that they had nobody proper for an hoftage ; buf 

 that they would deliver up the boy to the Ruffians agree- 

 able to their delire. Kaplin received him very thank- 

 fully, and brought him on board, where he was pro- 

 perly taken care of : he afterwards accompanied Glottoff 



to 



