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On tlie 22nd they fell in with anotlier island, in 14° 41' south longi- 

 tude, 144° 59' 20" west, which was also considered as a new discovery. 

 The truth, however, is that they all belong to those groups whose num- 

 bers are not yet ascertained, but which are known by the name of King 

 George's and Palliser's Islands, discovered by Cook, to which also 

 belong what he is pleased to call Eurick's Chain and Krusensteru's 

 Island. The sea, in fact, is here covered with innumerable low rocky 

 islets, formed by the coral animals, the discovery of any individual one 

 of which scarcely seems to merit a distinct claim to notice. 



On the 19th May they crossed the chain of Mulgrave's Islands, in 8'^ 

 45' 52" north, and on the 21st discovered a group of low coral islands, 

 lying in about 11° north and longitude 190°, and separated by a chan- 

 nel which, considering it as a new discover3^, they named Kutusoflf and 

 Suwaroff; "and I felt myself inexpressibly happy," says Kotzebue, "in 

 being the first who had erected an eternal monument in the South Sea 

 to these two men, who had so highly deserved of their country.'' Our 

 navigator is somewhat enthusiastic in his language, but we have little 

 doubt that his "new discovery" forms a i)art of the group long known 

 as Wallis' Islands on the charts. 



On the 19th June they reached Avatscha Bay, in Kamtchatka, which 

 they left on the 15th July; on the 20th they descried Behring Islands, 

 and on the 27th w'ere close in with St. Lawrence Island, wiiere they 

 had some communication with the natives, who resembled the people 

 whom Cook found on the shores of aSTorton Sound and the Aleutian 

 Islands, and were living in tents made of the ribs of whale, and cov- 

 ered with the skin of the morse. Their mode of salutation was some- 

 what like that of the Esquimaux of Bafitin's Bay; "each of them," says 

 Kotzelme, "embraced me, rubbed his nose hard against mine, and ended 

 his caresses by spitting on his hands, and wiping them several times 

 over my face." 



On the 3()th July they were on the American shore, between Cape 

 Prince of Wales and Garozdeff's Island, which being found to consist 

 of four instead of three, as laid down on Cook's chart, induced Kotzebue 

 to conjecture that the fourth must have subsequently risen out of the 

 sea, "otherwise," says he, "Cook or Clarke would have seen it;" the 

 more probable supposition is that the fog prevented them. At all 

 events, he looked on it as a new discovery, and named it after Eat- 

 raaroff, who had been Krusensteru's First Lieutenant on his voyage to 

 Japan. To the northward of Cape Prince of Wales is a long tract of 

 low land, covered with luxuriant verdure, and api)arently well inhabited. 

 On landing they found only dogs in the houses, the people having fled; 

 these houses were not merely temporary abodes, but had mud walls; 

 the interior was cleanly and convenient, and divided into a number of 

 apartments by boarded jiartitions; the floors, raised 3 feet from the 

 ground, were also of wood, which is supplied by the vast quantity of 

 drift brought by the north-east current from the mouths of the rivers 

 of America to the southward of Behring Straits, and thrown on the 

 shores of the straits. 



Our navigators soon discovered that they were on an island about 7 

 miles long, and a mile across in the widest part; beyond it was a deep 

 inlet, running eastward into the continent. On entering this bay, two 

 boats were observed, of the same kind as those made use of in the 

 Aleutian Islands. The appearance of the people in them was extremely 

 filthy and disgusting; their countenances had an expression of fierce- 

 ness, and all endeavours to induce them to land were unavailing. To 

 this bay, which was not examined, Kotzebue gave the name of his 



