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Kadu had taken a wife by whom he had one child, notwithstanding 

 which he came up to Kotzebue, and, witli a firm and determined voice 

 and hjok, said, '•! will remain with you wherever you go." His friends 

 endeavoured to dissuade him, and even to drag him from the sliip; but 

 his resolution was not to be shaken, and when the time of departure 

 arrived, he took an aftecting leave of his friends and family, distributed 

 his little property among them, and embarked on board the "Eurick." 



Before they left the group, however, Kotzebue thought right to tell 

 him that he had no intenti(m of revisiting the Islands of Eadack, and 

 that he was about to proceed on a long and fatiguing voyage. "He 

 threw his arms around me," said Kotzebue, " vowed to stay with me till 

 death, and nothing remained for me but to keep him, and with a firm 

 determination to provide for him as a father." M. Chamisso has given 

 several anecdotes illustrative of the mild and amiable character of 

 Kadu, who soon became a great favourite of the officers and men of the 

 " Hurick." '' We once only," says the naturalist, "saw this mild man 

 angry 5" and this was occasioned by sojne of the crew having removed a 

 little collection of stones which he had formed to a place where he could 

 not find them. He continued during the voyage to conduct himself 

 with great propriety; but on the return of the ship to the same group, 

 he as suddenly changed his mind of continuing with Kotzebue as he 

 had previously formed that resolution, and determined to abide with 

 his friends; the account which he received of the melancholy state of 

 his little daughter after his departure was sa])posed to be the motive 

 of this change; the reason assigned by himself, hoAvever, was that he 

 wished to superintend the new plants and animals which had been col- 

 lected for the use of the natives at the Sandwich Islands and other 

 places visited by the " Eui ick." 



The " Eurick " sailed about the middle of March to renew her north- 

 ern discovery, and on the loth April had reached the latitude 44° 30', 

 " a frightful day," says Kotzebue, " which blasted all my fairest hojyes." 

 A tremendous storm had nearly overwhelmed his little vessel, and he 

 was thrown with such violence against a projecting corner of his cabin 

 that he was obliged to keep his bed for several days. On the 24th the 

 shii) reached Ounalaska, and on the 29th June, having received on 

 board fifteen Aleutians, proceeded to the northward. On the 10th Jiily 

 they came in sight of St. Lawrence Island. Here Kotzebue inquired of 

 the natives whether the ice had long left their shores. Tlie answer was, 

 " Only within the last three days." " My hope, therefore," he observes, 

 "of penetrating Behring Straits was blasted''^ (the Lieutenant, or his 

 translator, has no great choice of words), " as I could not expect that 

 the sea would be cleared of ice for fourteen days." He stood, however, 

 to the northward, and at midnight "perceived," he says, "to their ter- 

 ror firm ice, which extended as far as the eye could see to the north east, 

 and then to the north, covering the whole surface of the ocean." 



Here he made up his mind, if that had not already been done, to lay 

 aside all further attempt at discovery, and return to the more agree- 

 able groups of coral islands. He thus states his case: 



My melanclioly situation, -whicli had daily grown worse since we had left Ouna- 

 laska, received here the last blow. The cold air so affected my lungs that I lost my 

 breath, and at last spasms in the chest, faintings, and spitting of blood ensued. I 

 now for the lirst time perceived that my situation was worse than I would hitherto 

 believe, and the physician seriously declared to me that I could not remain near the 

 ice. It cost me a long and severe contest; more than once I resolved to brave death 

 and accomplish my undertaking, but when I reflected that we had a difficult voyage 

 to our own countiy still before us, and perhaps the preservation of the " Rurick" and 

 the lives of my companions depended on mine, I then felt that I must suppress my 



