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MISCELLANIES. 



VOYAGE FROM CALCUTTA TO 

 OCHOXSK IN SIBERIA. 



(From the Asiatic Joiiraal.) 



THE Brothers, Capt. Gordon, 

 which lately returned to the 

 port of Calcutta, has performed a 

 Toyage deserving on several ac- 

 counts of particular attention. 

 The first direct attempt at com- 

 mercial enterprise betwixt the 

 ports of Calcutta and Ochotsk 

 possesses no common share of 

 interest. A narrative of it, from 

 Capt. Gordon's pen, has been 

 published in India. The Brothers 

 left Calcutta on the 9th May 

 1817, with a cargo composed of 

 such articles as it was thought 

 would be most in request in 

 Siberia, and with a crew of ^x 

 men. The burden of the vessel 

 does not exceed sixty-five tons ; 

 and when we consider the length 

 and difficulties of the voyage she 

 undertook, we wonder not a little 

 at the intrepidity which resolved 

 in so small a bark to encounter 

 the stormy seas of Ochotsk. The 

 captain states, that the commence- 

 ment of his voyage was far from 

 promising, having met with a 

 good deal of bad weather; sprung 

 a leak, and been obliged to put 

 back to refit. After overcoming 

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these difficulties, tJie Brothers 

 was at length enabled to proceed 

 on her voyage, and without any 

 thing remarkable arrived at 

 Ochotsk on September 27th. 

 Unfortunately she reached the 

 port of her destination a few days 

 after the merchants, who are in 

 the habit of frequenting it from 

 the neighbouring coasts, and from 

 the interior, had taken their de- 

 parture; and as the winter was 

 soon expected to set in, in all its 

 Siberian severity, there was no 

 time to be lost. Accordingly 

 the cargo of the Brothers was got 

 on shore, and lodged in a ware- 

 house to wait the return of the 

 season when mercantile transac- 

 tions can be carried on in these 

 inhospitable regions. Mr. Eddis, 

 a partner in the speculation, re- 

 mained at Ochotsk with the 

 cargo ; and the vessel, under the 

 command of Capt. Gordon, left 

 the port on October 19th, and 

 again reached Calcutta in January. 

 In April of the present year the 

 Brothers was lying in the Hoogley 

 river, taking in a cargo for a se- 

 cond trip to Ochotsk ; and as 

 Capt. Gordon expects to be able 

 to sail much sooner than he did 

 last year, he is in hopes of arriv- 

 ing at Ochotsk early in June, 

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