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the boats ; when the wind, veering to the Southward, '779- 



O&ober. 



flopped our farther progrefs, and obliged us to drop anchor « — -v— — > 

 in ten fathoms ; the oftrog bearing due North, half a league 

 diftant. 



The weather being foggy, and the wind from the fame 

 quarter during the forenoon of the 9th, we continued in our Saturday 9. 

 ftation. At four in the afternoon, we again unmoored; but 

 whilft we were, with great difficulty, weighing our laft an- 

 chpr, I was told that the drummer of the marines had left 

 the boat, which had juft returned from the village, and 

 that he was laft feen with a Kamtfchadale woman, to whom 

 his mefTmates knew he had been much attached, and who 

 had ofren been obferved perfuading him to ftay behind. 

 Though this man had been long ufelefs to us, from a 

 fwelling in his knee, which rendered him lame, yet this 

 made me the more unwilling he mould be left behind, to 

 become a miferable burthen, both to the Ruffians and him- 

 felf. I therefore got the ferjeant to fend parties of foldiers, 

 in different directions, in fearch of him, whilft fome of our 

 failors went to a well known haunt of his in the neighbour- 

 hood, where they found him with his woman. On the re- 

 turn of this party, with our deferter, we weighed, and fol- 

 lowed the R.efolution out of the bay. 



Having at length taken our leave of St. Peter and St. Paul, 

 I fhall conclude this chapter with a particular defcription of 

 Awatfka bay, and the coaft adjoining; not only becaufe (its- 

 three inlets included) it conftitutes perhaps the mod extcn- 

 five, and fafeft, harbour that has yet been discovered ; but 

 becaufe it is the only port in this part of the world, capable 

 of admitting mips of any confulerable burthen. The term 

 Bay, indeed, is perhaps not applicable, properly fpeaking, 



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