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lying near it, he was fo retarded by contrary winds, 

 that he was obhged, on account of the advanced fea- 

 fon, to fearch for a wintering place. He accordingly to doJbi'l^*^ 



Slulatlkoi 



failed South towards an open bay, which lies on the t^oi^s. '"""s 



•*■ ' towards the 



Weil fide of Shelatfkoi Nofs, and which no navigator ^°^>'"''- 

 had explored before him. He fleered into it on the 

 25th, and got upon a flioal between a fmall ifland, 

 and a point of land which juts from the Eaftern 

 coaft of this bay. Having got clear with much dif- 

 ficulty, he continued for a Ihort time a S. E. courfe, 

 then turned S. W. He then landed in order to difcover 

 a fpot proper for their winter refidence ; and found two 

 fmall rivulets, but neither trees nor drift wood. The 

 veflTel was towed along the Southerly fide of the bay as 

 far as the ifland Sabadei. On the 5th of September, he 

 faw fome huts of the Tfchutfki clofe to the narrow 

 channel between Sabadei and the main land ; but the 

 inhabitants fled on his approach. 



Not having met with a proper fituation, he flood 

 out to fea, and got round the ifland Sabadei on the 

 8th, when he faflened the veflel to a large body of ice, 

 and was carried along by a current towards W. S. W. 

 at the rate of five verfls an hour. On the loth, he 

 faw far to the N. E. by N. a mountain, and fleered the 

 nth and 1 2th towards his former wintering place in winters a fe- 



coikI Time at 



the river Kovyma. Shalauroff^ propoied to have made ■'"= ^owma, 



aid returns to 

 ♦Up the Lena. . 



