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April 23. Hancock arrived at Loo Choo. I often wish fate had 

 placed me on board the Hancock as she visits all the out of the 

 way places where novelties in natural history may tend to be 

 found, while the Vincennes generally drops anchor only in sea 

 ports which have been previously well searched. 



April 27. Got underway with Hancock and Cooper. Coasted along 

 west coast of Loo Choo heading north. Passed between Mont- 

 gomery Island and Great Loo Choo. 



During the next few days the vessels passed to westward of 

 Oukai [Okinoerabu-shima, Ryukyu Islands] rounded the western 

 end of Katowaisima [Kakeroma] and ran into the strait which 

 separated this island from Ousima [Amami-O-shima]. Dredged 

 at the mouth of a small cove. 



May 3. Hancock arrives. Cooper has proceeded up coast of Ousima 

 [Amami-O-shima]. I found several curious species of land shells. 



May 6. Resumed trip. 



May 7. Passed Tukara [Ko Takara Shima] and Sabine Island. 



May 11. N. Lat. 34°22'; E. Long. 138°06'. Made land, Coast of 

 Nippon [Japan]. 



May 13. Resolved to run for our port of Simoda [Shimoda] as it had 

 been surveyed. Remained a fortnight. There were no good 

 beaches or rich sea bottom. 



May 28. Left. 



June 7. Beat up bay of Island of Jesso [Yezo= Hokkaido] and reached 

 Hakodadi [Hakodate]. In the middle of Hakodadi Bay there is 

 an extensive area of shelly and gravelly bottom in from eight to 

 fourteen fathoms. 



June 26. Left Hakodadi. 



July 7. N. Lat. 50°39'; E. Long. 159°32'. 



July 8. Saw the mountains of the Kamtschtkan [Kamchatka] coast. 



July 9. Passed through the narrow entrance to the broad bay of 

 Awatska [Avacha Bay]. Anchored off the mouth of the small 

 harbor of Petropaulski [Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski] and were 

 immediately visited by two Americans, Chace and Duval. The 

 town is deserted by the Russians and has been, ever since the 

 removal of the English and French fleets last year. Cooper had 

 arrived on the eighth. 



July 13. Departed. 



August 4. Reached Seniavine Straits [Ostrov Senyavina] and 

 anchored in Glassenappe [Glazenap] Harbor. I commenced 

 dredging operations almost immediately and this business oc- 

 cupied me for the first week of our stay. The bottom of the 

 Straits was mostly muddy, with a depth of from ten to thirty 

 fathoms, but a narrow strip of rocky or gravelly bottom in three 



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