APPENDIX T. 



What became of Fedot AlexefF and his crew will be men- 

 tioned hereafter. DeflmefF and his companions, who 

 amounted to twenty-five perfons, now fought for the 

 Anadyr; but being entirely unacquainted with the 

 country, ten weeks elapfed before they reached its banks 

 at a fniall dift ance from its mouth : here he found neither 

 wood nor inhabitants, Sec. 



The following year he went further up the river, and 

 built Anadirfkoi.Oflrog : here he was joined by fome 

 Rufiians on the 25th of April, 1650, who came by land 

 from the river Kovyma. In 1652, Deflmeif having 

 conftru6fed a veffel, failed down the Anadyr as far as 

 its mouth, and obferved on the North fide a fand bank, 

 which ftretched a confiderable way into the fea. A 

 fand bank of this kind is called, in Siberia, Korga. Great 

 numbers of fea-horfes were found to refort to the 

 mouth of the Anadyr. DeflmefF collected feveral of 

 their teeth, and thought himfelf amply compenfated by 

 this acquifition for the trouble of his expedition. In 

 the following year, DeflmefF ordered wood to be felled 

 for the purpofe of conflru6ting a vefFel, in which he 

 propoled fending the tribute which he had colleited by 

 fea to Yakutfk *. But this defign was laid afide from the 



* That is, by fea, from the mouth of the Anadyr, round Tfchukot- 

 ikoi Nofs to the river Lena, and then up that river to Yakutfk. 



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