66 QUIT NEW ARCHANGEL. 



was particularly welcome, as the bearer of per- 

 mission to leave our station and return to Russia. 

 We immediately set to work to get our vessel 

 in sailing order; and the 11th of August was 

 the long wished-for day, when, favoured by a 

 fresh north wind, we bade adieu to New Arch- 

 angel, where we had passed five months and 

 a-half surrounded by a people calculated only 

 to inspire aversion, and without relief to the 

 wearisomeness of our mode of life, except in 

 the society of Captain MurawiefF and the few 

 Russian inhabitants of the fortress. 



I determined to return to Kronstadt by the 

 Chinese Sea and the Cape of Good Hope. But 

 having no intention of following Captain Blanch- 

 ard''s example, in wearing out my crew by a 

 voyage of unreasonable length without any 

 relaxation, I appointed Manilla, in the Philip- 

 pine island of Lucon, for their resting-place, 

 after having made another attempt to find the 

 Ralik chain of islands. 



The medium of the astronomical observations 

 made during these five months, gave, as the 

 geographical longitude of New Archangel, 

 135° 33' 18", and the latitude as 5T 2' 5T ; 



