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In the eager search for furs new sections were visited, until the whole 

 southern coast from Attou to Sitka became known. Among these early- 

 adventurers were Capt. Emilian Bassof, 1743 (the first white man to 

 land on the island of Attou) ; Mikhail Nevodchikof, 1745 ; Andrei Tol- 

 stykh, 1747; NIcofor Trapeznikof, 1749; Emilian Yugof, 1750; Peter 

 Bashnakf, Feodor Kholodilof, and Simeon Krassilnikof, 1753; Radion 

 Durnef, 1755; Andrei Tolfstykh, 1756; Ivan Shilkin, J 757; Stepan 

 Glotlof, Demetri Paikof, 1758; Gerassim Pribylof, Grigor Suelikof, 

 Alexander Baranof, Lastochkin Lebedef, Ferdinand P. Wrangell, and 

 hundreds of others of lesser note. These trading expeditions were sup- 

 plemented by explorations under the auspices of the Russian Govern- 

 ment and Russian- American companies. 



In 1778 the Trekh Sviatiteli, in command of Masters Ismailof and 

 Bocharof of the Imperial navy, was dispatched by Shelikof in search of 

 new lands to the eastward of Kadiak. Capt. Joseph Billings, com- 

 manding the Slava Rossie (Glory of Russia), was sent in 1790 on a 

 secret "Astronomical and geographical expedition for navigating the 

 frozen sea, describing its coasts and ascertaining the situation of the 

 islands in the seas between the two continents of Asia and America." 



On the 7th of August, 1803, Lieutenant Krusenstern, in the Nadeshda, 

 and Uri Lisiansky, in the Neva, sailed from Kronstadt with a party of 

 scientists (among them being the naturalist, Langsdorf ), a force of ship- 

 wrights and skilled workmen for shipbuilding, supplies of charts, 

 instruments, and nautical works. In April, 1804, the two ships rounded 

 Cape Horn. In June they visited the Sandwich Islands, where they 

 separated, the Nadeshda proceeding to Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, 

 and Captain Lisiansky in the Neva continuing on to Alaska, arriving 

 at Kadiak on the 13th of July, 1804, the first Russian expedition to visit 

 Alaska around Cape Horu. 



Otto von Kotzebue, commanding the brig RuriJc, sailed from Petro- 

 pavlovsk in the summer of 1816 in search of a " Northwest passage." 

 He was accompanied by the scientists, Chamisso and Wormskloid, Dr. 

 Escholtz, and Artist Choris. Passing through Bering Straits and dis- 

 covering a large inlet to the eastward, he rejoiced to believe that ha 

 had found the long-looked-for passage. On August 1, 1816, he entered 

 the new sound with the RuriTc only to find a few days later his mistake. 



In 1822 Captains Khramchenco and Etholin, and Master Vassilaief, 

 in the brig Golovnin, and schooner Baranof, made a detailed survey of 

 the Alaska coast of Bering Sea from Bristol Bay to the mouth of the 

 Kuskowim, and from St. Michael to Golovin Sound. 



In 1827 Capt. Feodor P. Liitke, by directions of the Russian Govern- 

 ment, made a careful survey of the northern coast of the Aliaska 

 peninsula. 



In 1828 Captain Hagemeister, in the Krotky, and Captain Stan- 

 inkovich, in the Mailer, made important surveys on the coast of Bering 

 Sea. 



