CALIFORNIA, AND THE RUSSIAN 

 SETTLEMENT OF ROSS. 



I HAVE already mentioned, in the foregoing 

 chapter, that I was allowed to pass the winter 

 of 1824 in California and the Sandwich Islands. 

 Captain Lasaref also, whom I relieved on the sta- 

 tion, proposed to run into St. Francisco on the 

 coast of California, on his return, in order there 

 to lay in fresh provisions for his passage round 

 Cape Horn. He first awaited, 'however, the 

 arrival of the post from St. Petersburgh, which 

 passes between these distant points of our far- 

 spreading monarchy only once in the year, 

 arriving in the spring at Ochotsk by the way of 

 Siberia, and reaching New Archangel in the 

 autumn by sea. 



