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through the country of Tichukt from the Bay of St. Lawrence to 
the river Kolyma, which they had left four years before. This. 
wonderful journey, which they performed in fledges drawn 
by rein-deer and attended by fome of the intrepid nativesy 
continued from the middle of Auguft till the end of February, 
1792, when they arrived at the river Angarka, which falls 
into the great river of Anuy, after having travelled through, 
and examined in regard to geography, natural hiftory and 
ftatiftics, an extenfive tract of country very little known, 
the Bay of St. Laurence and the iflands between Bering’s 
Straits and the mouth of the Anadyr, inhabited by about 
four thoufand Tfchuktefe, who are ichthyophagi or feeders 
on fifth, and the whole almoft level land, deftitute of wood, 
of the rein-deer Tichuktefe from the above-mentioned firaits 
as far as the Kolyma. 
In the beginning of May thefe enterprifing travellers re- 
turned on horfeback.to Jakutzk. Their veffel, which they 
had left ia the Bay of St. Laurence, had in the mean time 
proceeded to Onalafchka, under the command of Capt. 
Sarifchef, and had wintered there, together with a fmall 
cutter called the Tfchorne Orel (the Black Eagle), which 
had been built foon after their firft arrival at Kamtfchatka, to 
fupply the lofs of the veffel ftranded at Ochotzk, and on 
board which were Captains Fall and Bering. 
Next {pring both veffels returned to Kamtfchatka, The | 
Slawa Roffie was left there in the harbour of St. Peter and 
St. Paul; but Captains Hall and Sarifchef, in the courfe of 
the fummer, paid a vifit in the Black Eagle to the chain of 
the volcanic Kurile iflands. They then proceeded to Ochotzk, 
from which they were followed, in the fummer of 1793, by 
the reft of the crew of the Slawa Roflie in a tranfport com-, 
manded by Capt. Billings; and in the winter of 1794 the 
whole of the perfons employed in the expedition returned to. 
Peterfburgh, : 
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