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rence until lie reached the great promontory of the 

 Tichutfls-i ; no obflrudtions from the ice are mentioned, 

 and probably there were none ; for he obferves upon 

 another occafion, that the fea is not every year fo free 



" to the KovyiiTa; and from thence with his crew to the Anadyr, which 

 <' was then newly difcovered. That the firft time he failed from the 

 " Kovyma, he was forced by the ice to return to that river ; but that 

 " next year he again failed from thence by fea, and after great danger, 

 " misfortunes, and with the lofs of part of his fliipping, arrived at laft 

 " at the mouth of the Anadyr. Stadukin having in vain attempted to 

 " go by fea, afterwards ventured to pafs over the chain of mountains 

 " then unknown ; and reached by that means the Anadyr. Soliverf- 

 " toff and his partv, who quarrelled with Deihneff, went to the fame 

 " place from the Kovyma by land ; and the tribute was afterwards fent 

 " to the laft mentioned river acrofs the mountains, which were very dan- 

 " gerous to pafs amidft the tribes of Koriacs and Yukagirs, who had 

 " been lately reduced by the Ruffians." 



In another memorial DefhnefF complains bitterly of Soliverftoffi 

 and aflerts, " that one Severka Martemyanoff, who had been gained 

 " over by Soliverftoff, was fent to Yakutfk, with an account that he 

 " (SoliverftofF) had difcovered the coafts to the North of the Anadyr, 

 " where large numbers of fea-horfes are found." Deflineff hereupon fays, 

 " that SoliverftofF and Stadukin never reached the rocky promontory, 

 " which is inhabited by numerous bodies of the Tfchutlki; over againft 

 ' " which are iflands whofe inhabitants wear artificial teeth thruft through 

 *' their under lips. This is not the firft promontory from the river Ko- 

 " vvma, called Svatoi Nofs ; but another far more ccnfidcrable, and 

 " very-well known to him (Defhneff), becaufe the vcflel of AnkunidofT 

 *•' was wrecked there ; and becaufe he had there taken prifoners fome of 

 " the people, who were rowing in their boats ; and feen the if landers 

 " with teeth in their lips. He alfo well knew, that it vvas flill far from 

 " that promontory to the river Anadyr." 



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