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CHAP. VIII. 



PLAN OF OUR FUTURE PROCEEDINGS. COURSE TO THE 



SOUTHWARD, ALONG THE COAST OF KAMTSCHATKA. CAPE 



LOPATKA. PASS THE ISLANDS SHOOMSKA AND PARA- 



MOUSIR. DRIVEN TO THE EASTWARD OF THE KUR1LES. 



SINGULAR SITUATION WITH RESPECT TO THE PRETENDED 

 DISCOVERIES OF FORMER NAVIGATORS. FRUITLESS AT- 

 TEMPTS TO REACH THE ISLANDS NORTH OF JAPAN. — GEO- 

 GRAPHICAL CONCLUSIONS. VIEW OF THE COAST OF JAPAN. 



RUN ALONG THE EAST SIDE. PASS TWO JAPANESE 



VESSELS. DRIVEN OFF THE COAST BY CONTRARY WINDS.— 



EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF CURRENTS. STEER FOR THE 



BASHEES. PASS LARGE QUANTITIES OF PUMICE STONE. 



DISCOVER SULPHUR ISLAND. PASS THE PRATAS. 



ISLES OF LEMA, AND LADRON ISLAND. CHINESE PILOT 



TAKEN ON BOARD THE RESOLUTION. JOURNALS OF THE 



OFFICERS AND MEN SECURED. 



Our instructions from the Board of Admiralty 

 having left a discretionary power with the command- 

 ing officer of the expedition, in case of failure in the 

 search of a passage from the Pacific into the Atlantic 

 Ocean, to return to England, by whatever route he 

 should think best for the farther improvement of 

 geography, Captain Gore demanded of the principal 

 officers their sentiments, in writing, respecting the 

 manner in which these orders might most effectually 

 be obeyed. The result of our opinions, which he had 

 the satisfaction to find unanimous, and entirely co- 

 inciding with his own, that the condition of the ships, 

 of the sails and cordage, made it unsafe to attempt, 

 at so advanced a season of the year, to navigate the 

 sea between Japan and Asia, which would otherwise 

 have afforded the largest field for discovery ; that it 

 was therefore adviseable to keep to the eastward of 



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