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ACCOUNT OF THE 



the fields. The Toigons of Umnak, Akutan, and 

 Tofhko, with their relations of Unalaflika, had formed a 

 confederacy. They agreed not to difturb any Ruffians 

 on their firft landing, but to let them go out on different 

 hunting excuriions ; being thus feparated and weakened, 

 the intention of the Toigons were to attack and cut 

 them off at the fame time, fo that no one party fliould 

 have affiftance from any of the others. They acquainted 

 him alfo with GlottofF's arrival at Umnak. 



Thefe unfavourable reports filled SoloviofF with anx- 

 iety ; he accordingly doubled his watch, and ufed every 

 precaution in his power againil attacks from the favages. 

 But wanting wood to repair his veffel, and wifliing for 

 more particular information concerning the fituation of 

 the ifland, he difpatched the 29th a party of thirty men, 

 with the above-mentioned interpreter, to its weftern ex- 

 tremity. In three or four hours they rowed to Anko- 

 nom, a point of land, where they faw a village, confifting 

 of two large caves, and over againft it a little illand at no 

 great diftance. The moment, the inhabitants faw them 

 approaching, they got into their baidars, and put out to 

 fea, leaving their dwellings empty. The Ruffians found 

 therein feveral Skeletons, which, in the interpreter's 

 opinion, were the remains of ten murdered failors of 

 TrapefnikofFs company. With much perfuafion the 

 interpreter prevailed on the iflanders to return to the place 

 which they had juft quitted : they kept however at a 



wary 



