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APPENDIX I. 



departure : this difpute was owing to the jealoufy of 

 DellinefF, who was unwiUing that AnkudinoiF Ihould 

 fliare with him the honour, as well as the profits, which 

 might refult from the expedled difcoveries. Each velTel 

 was probably manned with about thirty perfons ; An- 

 kudinoff's, we certainly know, carried that number. 

 Deflmeff promifed before-hand a tribute of feven fables, 

 to be exacted from the inhabitants on the banks of Ana- 

 dyr ; fo fanguine were his hopes of reaching that river. 

 This indeed he finally effected; but not fo foon, nor with. 

 fo little difficulty, as he had prefumed.. 



On the 20th of June, 1648, the three veffels failed 

 upon this remarkable expedition from the river Kovyma. 

 Confidering the little knowledge we have of the extreme 

 regions of Afia, it is much to be regretted,, that all the 

 incidents of this voyage are not circumffantially related. 

 DeflinefF''-, in an account of his expedition fent to 



Yakutsk, 



* In order thoroughly to underftand this narrative, it is neceffary to 

 inform the reader, that the voyage made by DcfhnefF was entirely for- 

 gotten, until the year 1736, when Mr. Muller found, in the archives of 

 Yakutflt, the original accounts of the Ruffian navigations in the Frozen 

 Ocean. 



Thefe papers virere extradted, under his infpedtion, at Yakutfk, and 

 fent to Peterfburg ; where they are now preferved in the library belong- 

 ing to the Imperial Academy of Sciences : they confift of feveral folio 

 volumes. The circumftances relating to Defhneff are contained in the 

 fecond volume. Soliverftoff and Stadukin, having laid claim to the dif- 

 1 covery 



