A P P E N D I X I. 329 



About that time the Koriacs of the Anadyr refufed to 

 take from the Ruffians the provifion of flour, which 

 they are accuftomed to purchafe every year. Enquiry 

 being made by the governor of Anadirsk, he found that 

 they had been amply fuppUed with that commodity 

 by the Tfchutfki. The latter had procured it from the 

 plunder of Shalauroff's veffel, the crew of which appeared no Account 



of tilis Expcdi- 



to have periflied near the Anadvr. From thefe facts, 1"'"^'"= ^"'l 



■i J ■ ' lii"i Lrew being 



which have been lince confirmed by repeated intelli-Tfchmfki!'^ 

 gence from the Koriacs and Tfchutfki, it has been af- 

 ferted, that ShalaurofF had doubled the N. E. cape of 

 Alia. But this aflertion amounts only to conjecfture ; for 

 the arrival of the crew at the mouth of the Anadyr 

 affords no decifive proof that they had paffed round the 

 Eartern extremity of Afia; for they might have penetrated 

 to that river by land, from the Wellern fide of Tfchukotf- 

 koi-Nofs. 



In reviewing thefe feveral accounts of the Ruffian 

 voyages in the Frozen Sea, as far as they relate to 

 a North Eaft paffage, we may obferve, that the cape 

 which ftretches to the North of the Piafida has never 

 been doubled; and that the exiftence of a paffage round 

 Tfchukotfkoi Nofs refts npon the fingle authority of 

 Delhneff. Admitting however a pradlicable navigation 

 round thefe two promontories, yet when we confider 

 the difficulties and dangers which the Ruffi.ans en- 



U u countered 



