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spare copper, or to see that the copper usually 

 furnished be of the strongest kind. The various 

 extra-services, in which it will be found necessary to 

 employ them, and especially the important one of 

 making anti-scorbutic decoctions, seem absolutely to 

 require some such provision ; and I should rather 

 recommend the former on account of the additional 

 quantity of fuel that would be consumed in heating 

 thick coppers. 



In the morning of the 10th, the boats from both 

 ships were sent to tow into the harbour a Russian 

 galliot from Okotzk. She had been thirty-five days 

 on her passage, and had been seen from the light- 

 house a fortnight ago, beating up toward the mouth 

 of the bay. At that time, the crew had sent their 

 only boat on shore for water, of which they now 

 began to be in great want ; and the wind freshening, 

 the boat was lost on its return; and the galliot, being 

 driven out to sea again, had suffered exceedingly. 



There were fifty soldiers in her, with their wives 

 and children ; and several other passengers, besides 

 the crew, which consisted of twenty-five ; so that 

 they had upward of an hundred souls on board ; a 

 great number for a vessel of eighty tons ; and that 

 was also heavy laden with stores and provisions. 

 Both this galliot, and the sloop we saw here in May, 

 are built like the Dutch doggers. Soon after she 

 had come to anchor, we received a visit from a Put- 

 parouchick, or sub-lieutenant, who was passenger in 

 the galliot, and sent to take the command of this 

 place. Part of the soldiers, we understood, were 

 also designed to reinforce the garrison ; and two 

 pieces of small cannon were landed, as an additional 

 defence to the town. It should seem, from these 

 circumstances, that our visit here had drawn the 

 attention of the Russian commanders in Siberia to 

 the defenceless situation of the place ; and I was 

 told by the honest serjeant, with many significant 

 shrugs, that, as we had found our way into it, other 



