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to Kamtcbatka, and was baptized by the name of Alex- 

 ander Popoff, being then about thirteen years of age. 

 For fome days after this conference the iflanders came off 

 in companies of five, ten, twenty, and thirty : they 

 were admitted on board in fmall numbers, and kindly 

 received, but with a proper degree of circumfpedlion. 



On the 8th of September the vefTel was brought fur* 

 ther up the creek without unloading her cargo : and on 

 the 9th Glottoff with ten men proceeded to a village on 

 the fliore about two hundred yards from the veirel, 

 where the natives had begun to refide : it confifted of 

 three fummer-huts covered only with long grafs : they 

 were from eight to ten yards broad, tvvclve long, and 

 about four high : they faw there about an hundred men, 

 but neither women nor children. 



Finding it impofllble to perfuade the favages to give 

 hoftages, GlottofF refolved to let his people remain to- 

 gether, and to keep a ftrong guard. 



The iflanders vifited them flill in fmall bodies ; it wa5 



however more and more vifible that their intentions were 



the Nat;- e^ bad. At laft on the lil of 06lobcr, by day break, a 



Ri.iTians, i.ut rrreat number havmc; aiTembjed tocrether in the remote 



-are deteatal. ° Q O 



parts of the ifland, came unexpe61edly acrofs the coun- 

 trv. They approached very near without being difco- 

 vered by the watch, and feeing nobody on deck but thofe 



on 



