J2Z ACCOUNT OF T H E 



their former courfe ; until the 5tli they failed on with 

 the wind at fouth ; but on the 5th and 6th, from 

 changeable breezes and dead calms, made no progrefs ; 

 from the 7th to the 13th, they failed E. S. E. witli 

 Southerly and Wefterly winds ; and from that time to 

 the fifteenth Eaft, vrith the wind at- Weft. 



September 16, they made the ifland Umnak, where 

 Solovioff had formerly been in Nikiphoroff 's vefTel. As 

 they failed along tlie Northern coaft, three iflanders came 

 to them in baidars ; but, the crew having no interpretery 

 they would not come on board. As they found no good 

 bay on that fliore, they proceeded through a ftrait of 

 about a verft broad, which fcparates Umnak from Una- 

 i^'"",','' laflika. Thev lav-to durinj^ the ni^ht ; and early on 

 the 17th dropped anchor at the diftance of about two 

 hundred yards from the fliore, in a bay on the North 

 fide of the laft mentioned ifland. 



From thence the captain difpatched Gregory Korenoff 

 at the head of twenty men in a baidar, with orders to 

 land, reconnoitre the country, find out the neareft habi- 

 tations, and report the difpofition of the people. Kore- 

 noff returned the fame day, with an account that he had 

 difcovered one of the dwelling-caves of the favages, but 

 abandoned and demolidied, in which he had found traces 

 of RuHians, viz. a written legend, and a broken malket- 

 ilock. In confeqnence of this intelligence, they brought 



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