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again to subdue this obstinate race, intending also to go over to 

 the American side, yet known only by report, in order to render 

 the races living there tributary to the Russians. The proposal 

 was accepted. A mate, Jacob Hens, a land-measurer, Michael 

 GvosDEV, an ore-tester, Herdebol, and ten sailors were 

 ordered by the Admiralty to accomiJany the expedition. At 

 Yekaterinenburg Schestakov was provided with some small 

 cannon and mortars with ammunition, and at Tobolsk with 400 

 Cossacks. In consequence of a great number of misfortunes, 

 among them shipwreck in the sea of Okotsk, there stood how- 

 ever bat a small portion of this force at his disposal when he 

 began his campaign by marching into the country from the 

 bottom of Penschina Bay. This campaign too was exceedingly 

 unfortunate. After only a few days' march he came unexj)ect- 

 edly on a large body of Chukches, who themselves had gone to 

 war with the Koryiiks. A fight took place on the f^th March, 

 1730, in which Schestakov himself fell, hit by an arrow, and his 

 followers were killed or put to flight. 



Among those who were ordered to accompany Schestakov in 

 this unfortunate campaign was Captain Dmitri Paulutski. 

 Under his command a new campaign was undertaken against 

 the Chukches. With a force of 215 Russians, 160 Cossacks and 

 60 Yukagires, Paulutski left Anadyrsk on the f^;^^ March, 1731, 

 and marched east of the sources of the Anadyr to the Polar Sea, 

 which was only reached after two months' march. Then he 

 went along the coast, partly by land, partly on the ice, to the 

 eastward. After fourteen days he fell in with a large Chukch 

 army, and having in vain summoned it to surrender, he 

 delivered a blow on the ^th June, and obtained a complete 

 victory over the enemy. During the continuation of the 

 campaign along the coast he was compelled to fight on two 

 other occasions, one on the ^^ i'"'^ and the other on the fth July, 

 at Chukotskojnos itself, over which promontory he wished to 

 march to the mouth of the Anadyr. In both cases the victory 

 lay with the Russians, who, according to Miiller's account based 

 on the ofiicial documents, in all three engagements lost only 

 three Cossacks, one Yukagire and five Koryiiks. But notwith- 

 standing all these defeats the Chukches refused to submit and 

 pay tribute to the Russians, on which account the only gain of 

 the campaign was the honour of avenging Schestakov' s defeat 

 and of marching in triumph over Chukotskojnos. For this, ten 

 days were required. On the promontory, hills of considerable 

 height had to be passed. It appears as if Paulutski followed the 

 shore of Kolyutschin Bay to the south, and then marched over 

 the tongue of land which separates this bay from Anadyr Bay, 

 or to express it otherwise, which unites the Chukch peninsula 

 to tlie mainland of Siberia. 



