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" two iflands fituated oppofite to it, whofe inhabitants 

 *' (as is before-mentioned) place pieces of the fea-horfe 

 " tush into holes made in their lips. DefhnefF alone 

 *' had feen thefe people, which neither Stadukin nor 

 <' SoliverftofF had pretended to have done : and the 

 " Korga, or fand-bank, at the mouth of the river Anadyr, 

 *' was at fome diftance from thele iflands." 



While DefchnefF was furveying the fea-coaft, he faw 

 in an habitation belonging to fome Koriacs a woman of 

 Yakutsk, who, as he recolle<5led, belonged to P'edot 

 AlexiefF. Upon his enquiry concerning the fate of her 

 matter, flie replied, " that Fedot and Gerafim (Ankudi- 

 " noff) had died of the fcurvy ; th^^t part of the crew had 

 *' been llain ; that a few had efcaped in fmall veiTels, 

 " and have never fince been heard off." Traces of the 

 latter were afterwards found in the peninfula of Kamt- 



Afia, had miftaken a promontory called Svatoi Nofs for Tfchukotikoi 

 Nofs : for otherwife, why lliould Dcflmeff, in his refutation of Soli- 

 verftoffj begin by allerting, that Svatoi Nofs was not Tfchukotfkoi Nofs? 

 The only cape laid down in the Ruffian maps, under the name of Sva- 

 toi Nofs, is fituated 25 degrees to the VVefl of the Kovyma : but we 

 cannot poffibly fuppofe this lo be the promontory here iiUuded to ; be- 

 caufe, in failing from the Kovyma towards the Anadyr, "the firft promon- 

 " tory which prefents itfelf " mull neceifarily be Eaft of the Kovyma, 

 Svatoi Nofs, in the Ruffian language, fignifies Sacred Promontory ; and 

 the Ruffians occafionally apply it to any cape which it is difficult to 

 double. It therefore molt probably here relates to the firft cape, 

 which Soliverftoff reached after he had failed from Kovyma. 



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