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tin own, had feizcd upon a galliot, then lying at the entrance 

 —J— -j of the Bolfchoireeka, and had forced on board a number of 

 Ruffian iailors, fuflicient to navigate her: that he had put 

 on ihore a part of the crew at the Kourilc Iflands ; and, 

 among the reft, Ifmyloff, who, as the reader will recollect, 

 had puzzled us exceedingly, at Oonalallika, with the hiftory 

 of this tranlaction ; though, for want of underftanding his 

 language, we could not then make out all the circumllances 

 attending it : that he palled in fight of Japan •, made Luco- 

 nia; and was there directed how to fleer to Canton: that, ar- 

 riving there, he had applied to the French, and had got a 

 paflage in one of their India fhips to France: and that mod: 

 of the Ruffians had likewife returned to Europe in French 

 (hips; and had afterward found their way to Pcterfbufg. 

 We met with three of Beniowiki's crew in the harbour of 

 Saint Peter and Saint Paul; and from them we learnt the 

 circumllances of the above ftory. 



On our arrival at Canton, we received a farther corrobora- 

 tion of the facts, from the gentlemen of the Fnglifh factor)', 

 who told us, that a pcrfon had arrived there in a Ruffian 

 galliot, who faid he came from Kamtfchatka ; and that he 

 had been furnifhed by the French factory, with a pailage to 

 Europe *. 



We could not help being much diverted with the fears 

 and apprehenfions of ihefe good people, and particularly 

 with the account M. Port gave us of the ferjeant's wary pro- 

 ceedings the day before. On feeing me come on more, in 

 company with fome other gentlemen, he had made him and 

 the merchant, who arrived in the Hedges we had fecn come 



* It hath fnice appeared, from the account of Kerguelen's Voyage, that this 

 extraordinary perfon, who had entered into the French fcrvice, was commander of a 

 l>ew icttlcmcnt at Madagafcar, when Kcrguelen touched there in 1774. 



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