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and that he should remain with us, till the commander 

 was himself able to leave Bolcheretsk ; after which 

 he was to return, that the garrison there might not be 

 left without an officer. 



On the 5th, the parties that were on shore returned 

 on board, and were employed in scrubbing the 

 ship's bottom, and getting in eight tons of shingle 

 ballast. We also got up two of our guns, that had 

 been stowed in the fore-hold, and mounted them on 

 the deck, being now about to visit nations, our 

 receptions amongst whom might a good deal depend 

 on the respectability of our appearance. 



The Resolution hauled on shore on the 8th, to 

 repair some damages, which she had also received 

 among the ice, in her cutwater ; and our carpenters, 

 in their turn, were sent to her assistance. 



About this time we began to brew a strong decoc- 

 tion of a species of dwarf-pine that grows here in 

 great abundance, thinking that it might hereafter be 

 useful in making beer, and that we should probably be 

 able to procure sugar or molasses to ferment with it 

 at Canton. At all events, I was sure it would be 

 serviceable as a medicine for the scurvy ; and was 

 more particularly desirous of supplying myself with 

 as much of it as I could procure, because most of 

 the preventives we had brought out, were either used 

 or spoiled by keeping. By the time we had pre- 

 pared a hogshead of it, the ship's copper was discov- 

 ered to be very thin, and cracked in many places. 

 This obliged me to desist, and to give orders, that it 

 should be used as sparingly, for the future as pos- 

 sible. It might, perhaps, be an useful precaution for 

 those who may hereafter be engaged in long voyages 

 of this kind, either to provide themselves with a 



b'itude of 61° and 65°, is undoubtedly the same with the 

 island called, by Beering, St. Laurence's, and those we named 

 Clerke's, Anderson's, and King's Islands ; but their propor- 

 tionate size, and relative situation, are exceedingly erroneous. 



