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A VOYAGE TO 



'779- terward he had a fmall pcnfion granted ; and that fincc 

 ^cptcm rr.^ j^ a j or g e j im camc to t he command, his fituation had been 



infinitely mended. The notice that worthy man had taken 

 of him, and his having often invited him to become his 

 gueft, had been the occafion of others following his ex- 

 ample ; befides which, he had been the means of getting 

 his penfion increafed to one hundred roubles a year; which 

 is the common pay of an Enfign in all parts of the Em- 

 prefs's dominions, except in this province, where the pay of 

 all the officers is double. Major Behm told us, that he had 

 obtained pcrmimon to take him toOkotzk, which was to be 

 the place of his refidence in future ; but that he mould 

 leave him behind for the prefent, on an idea, that; he 

 might, on our return to the bay, be ufeful to us as an 

 interpreter. 



Having given orders to the Firfl Lieutenants of both mips, 

 to let the rigging have fuch a repair as the fupply of ftorcs, 

 we had lately received, would permit, we fet out on our 

 hunting party, under the direction of the corporal of the 

 Kamtfchadales, intending, before we began to look for our 

 game, to proceed llraight to the head of Behm's Harbour. It 

 is an inlet on the Weft fide of the bay (which we had named 

 after that officer, from its being a favourite place of his, 

 and having been furveyed by himfclf), and is called by the 

 natives Tareinfka. 



In our way toward this harbour, we met the Town of Saint 

 Peter and Saint Paul, in a canoe, with his wife and two 

 children, and another Kamtfchadalc. lie had killed two 

 feals upon a round ifland, that lies in the entrance of the 

 harbour, with which, and a great quantity of berries that 

 he had gathered, he was returning home. As the wind had 

 veered to the South Weft, we now changed our route, by 



his 



