Ottober. 



362 . A VOYAGE TO 



and was thrown on fliore at the mouth of the Anadir. Be 

 this as it may, fince thefe difcoverers, if fuch they were, did 

 not live to make any report or' what they had done, Volodi- 

 mir AtlaffofF, a Coflack, ftands for the firft acknowledged 

 difcoverer of Kamtfchatka *. 



This perfon was fent, in the year 1697, from the fort Ja- 

 kutfk to the Anadirfk, in the quality of commiflary, with 

 inftruclions to call in the affiftance of the Koriacs, with a 

 view to the difcovery of countries beyond theirs, and to the 

 fubjecting them to a tribute. In 1699, he penetrated, with 

 about fixty Ruffian foldiers, and the fame number of Cof- 

 facks, into the heart of the peninfula, gained the Tigil, and 

 from thence levying a tribute in furs, in his progrefs crofled 

 over to the River Kamtfchatka, on which he built the higher 

 Kamtfchatka ojlrog, called Verchnei, where he left a gar- 

 rifon of fixteen CoiTacks, and returned to Jakutfk in 17^0, 

 with an immenfe quantity of rare and valuable tributary 

 furs. Thefe he had the good fenfe and policy to accompany 

 to Mofcow, and, in recom pence for his fervices, was ap- 

 pointed Commander of the fort of Jakutfk, with farther 

 orders to repair again to Kamtfchatka, having firft drawn 

 from the garrifon at Tobolfk a reinforcement of a hundred 

 CofTacks, with ammunition, and whatever elfc could give 

 efficacy to the completion and fettlement of his late disco- 

 veries. Advancing with this force toward the Anadirfk, he 

 fell in with a bark on the River f Tungufka, laden with 



* It is proper to remark, that Atlaflbff fent an advanced party, unJer the com- 

 mand of a fubakern, called Lucas Molofkoff, who certainly penetrated into 

 Kamtfchatka, and returned with an account of his fuccefs, before AtlaflbfT 

 fct out, and is therefore not unjuftly mentioned as the Difcoverer of Kamt- 

 fchatka. 



■\ This River empties itfelf into the Jcnelei. 



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