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been loll. He likewife required a circumltaniial ac- 

 count of their voyages. By another order of the 24th 

 he fent for four of the principal hoflages, and demanded 

 tlie tribute of flvins which had been exavSled from the 

 inlanders. But as the weather was generally tempeftuous 

 at this feafon of the year, they deferred fending them 

 till the fpring. May the 31ft LevalhefF fet fail for 

 Kamtchatka ; and in 1 7 7 i returned fafely from his ex- 

 pedition at St. Peterfburg. 



The two veffels remained at Umnak until the year 

 1770, during which time the crews met with no oppo- 

 lition from the iflanders. ' They continued their hunt- 

 ing parties, in wdiich they had fuch good fortune, that 

 the fliare of Otcheredin's velTel (whole voyage is here 

 chiefly related) confifted in 530 large fea-otter fkins, 

 40 young ones and 30 cubs, the fkins of 656 fine black 

 foxes, 100 of an inferior fort, and about 1250 red fox 

 ikins. 



With this large cargo of furs Otcheredin fet fail on the 

 3 2d of May, 1770, from Umnak, leaving PopofF's crew 

 behind. A fhort time before their departure, the other 

 interpreter Ivan SurgefF, at the inftigation of his relations, 

 deferted. 



Return of After having touched at the neareft of the Aleutian 



' OuhereJm to o . 



-ocUotik. iflands, Otcheredin and his crew arrived on the 24th of 



