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LOG BOOK OF THE "ST. PETER" 



(Q July 20, 1 741. After Midday 



M Khitrov's journal: "At six o'clock we came within A mile of the island and 

 dropped the small bower anchor in 22 fathoms of water. We called that island 



St. Elias. . . The Captain Commander sent me in the longboat to examine the strait 

 and to find an anchorage among the islands seen by us in the N." July 20 is St. Elias day. 

 "The island in the middle of the bay [which] bears N A of a mile" is Wingham Island. 



