208 cook's voyage to may, 



CHAP. III. 



CONTINUATION OF TRANSACTIONS IN THE HARBOUR OF ST. 



PETER AND ST. PAUL. ABUNDANCE OF FISH. DEATH 



OF A SEAMAN BELONGING TO THE RESOLUTION. THE 



RUSSIAN HOSPITAL PUT UNDER THE CARE OF THE SHIPS' 

 SURGEONS. SUPPLY OF FLOUR AND CATTLE. CELEBRA- 

 TION OF THE KING'S BIRTH-DAY. DIFFICULTIES IN 



SAILING OUT OF THE BAY. ERUPTION OF A VOLCANO. 



STEER TO THE NORTHWARD. CHEEPOONSKOI NOSS. 



ERRORS OF THE RUSSIAN CHARTS. KAMTSCHATSKOI NOSS. 



OLUTORSKOI NOSS. TSCHUKOTSKOI NOSS. ISLAND OF 



ST. LAURENCE. VIEW, FROM THE SAME POINT, OF THE 



COASTS OF ASIA AND AMERICA, AND THE ISLANDS OF ST. 



DIOMEDE. VARIOUS ATTEMPTS TO GET TO THE NORTH, 



BETWEEN THE TWO CONTINENTS. OBSTRUCTED BY IM- 

 PENETRABLE ICE. SEA-HORSES AND WHITE BEARS KILLED. 



CAP 



SIGNS. 



CAPTAIN CLERKE's DETERMINATION, AND FUTURE DE- 



Jliaving concluded the last chapter with an account 

 of our return from Bolcheretsk, accompanied by 

 Major Behm, the Commander of Kamtschatka, and 

 of his departure; I shall proceed to relate the trans- 

 actions that passed in the harbour of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul during our absence. On the 7th of May, soon 

 after we had left the bay, a large piece of ice drove 

 across the cut-water of the Resolution, and brought 

 home the small bower anchor. This obliged them to 

 weigh the other anchor, and moor again. The car- 

 penters, who were employed in stopping the leak, 

 were obliged to take off a great part of the sheathing 

 from the bows, and found many of the trunnels so 

 very loose and rotten, as to be easily drawn out with 



the fingers. 





