58 ACCOUNT OF THE ARCTIC llEGIONS. 



Company, who reside at tlieir settlements, have 

 travelled 1000 or 1500 miles through snow on foot, 

 in the course of a w^inter. 



Muller makes mention of the Tchuktchi nation, 

 being in the habit of travelling on the ice of the 

 sea, in sledges drawn by rein-deer*. The same 

 author, speaking of the power of the dogs of the 

 Kamtchadales in drawing gi-eat burdens, illustrates 

 the fact by stating, that in the year 1718, the go- 

 vernor. Knees IMischewski, ordered a whole pipe of 

 brandy to be brought from the convent of Ketskoe 

 to the city of Beresowa, which was accomplished by 

 sixteen dogsf. 



After the lamentable death of the illustrious na- 

 vigator Captain Cook, the Resolution and Dis- 

 covery, on their second advance into the Polar Sea, 

 put into the bay of Avatscha in Kamtchatka, for 

 obtaining a supply of naval stores and provisions. 

 No supplies, however, being to be had at the neigh- 

 bouring town of St Peter and St Paul, a despatch 

 was sent off in a sledge drawn by dogs to Bolshe- 

 rietzkoi, a distance of 135 English miles, an an- 

 swer to which was returned on the fourth day ; so 

 that a journey of 370 miles upon snow, was per- 

 formed in little more than three days and a-half:j:. 



* " Voyages from Asia to America/' Transl. p. vii. 



t Id. p. XI. 



X Cook's Third Voyage, Journal, Sd of May 1779« 



