156 ACCOUNT OF THE 



CHAP. XII. 



Voyage of Otcheredin — He zvinters upon Umnak — Arrival 

 of 'Lt\?iShQ,S upon Unalaflika — Return of Otcheredin to 

 Ochotfk. 



oEiUnin TN the year 1765 three merchants, namely, Orechoff 



the St. Paul, B 



1/65. •*■ of Yula, Lapin of Sohkamfk, and ShilofF of Uf- 



tyug, fitted out a new veffel called the St. Paul, under 

 the command of Aphanaffei Otcheredin. She was built 

 in the harbour of Ochotfk : his crew confifted of fixty- 

 two Ruffians and Kamtchadals, and flie carried on board 

 two inhabitants of the Fox Iflands named John and Ti- 

 mothy Surgeff, who had been brought to Kamtchatka 

 and baptifed. 



September 10, they failed from Ochotfk, and arrived 

 the 2 2d in the bay of Bolcherefk where they wintered. 

 Augult I, 1776, they continued their voyage, and 

 having pafTed the fecond of the Kuril Ifles, fleered on the 

 6th into the open fea ; on the 24th they reached the 

 nearefl of the Fox Iflands, which the interpreters called 

 *Atchak. A florm arifing they call anchor in a bay, 

 but faw no inhabitants upon the fhore. On the 26th 



* Called in a former journal Atchu, p, 63. 

 "2- they 



