LANDFALL: AGATTU ISLAND 307 



September 18, 1741 

 Latitude by observation 52 33'; from Vaua, longitude 4 44' 8", 

 rhumb S83°2o'E, distance 172.5 knots. 



Saw the same kind of sea cabbage, grass, and green water. 



September 19, 1741 



Latitude 52 37'; from Vaua, longitude 4 36' 8", rhumb S83°i2'E, 

 distance 167.5 knots. 



September 20, 1741 



Latitude 52 36'; from Vaua, longitude 4 17', rhumb S83°46'E, dis- 

 tance 156.6 knots. 



September 21, 1741 



Latitude 52 35'; from Vaua, longitude 3 29' 5*, rhumb S8i°5i'E, 

 distance 127 knots. 



At the eighth hour we saw a small fish near the ship, took soundings, 

 and got 60 fathoms. No land in sight, but for the sake of safety we put 

 about. 



At the tenth hour in the morning we saw land straight ahead of us, 

 which did not look like Kamchatka. We came about on a light tack and 

 went parallel to the shore on the east, distant about 4 knots. At noon the land 

 was still in sight, extending from WSW, 8 knots, 19 to NW^W, 6 knots. 

 Until 12:30 the southern half of the land seemed level, and the northern 

 half mountainous; but the mountains were neither high nor snow-cov- 

 ered. A small island 20 loomed up in N by W^W, 10 knots. In a bay 

 situated between the above-mentioned land in NWj^W and NE by N 

 high, snow-covered mountains were seen. 21 



September 22, 1741 



Latitude 52 07'; from Vaua, longitude 2° 34' 3*, rhumb S63°54'E, 

 distance 104.5 knots. 



At the sixth hour in the afternoon the cape which at noon bore WSW, 

 8 knots, bears now NE by N^E, 12 knots, and the other cape, the 

 western one, bears N by W, 6 knots; between them the shore is low and 

 level; the low, snowless mountains, which at noon seemed to stretch 

 from south to north, and the high, snow-covered mountains in the bay 

 bear NW by W>^W, 15 knots; and the land which we sighted yesterday 

 in N by W is now N, distant about 15 knots. 



Today we saw two otters asleep in the water. 



19 This was the southeastern point of Agattu Island. 

 :o One of the Semichi Islands. 

 21 The high land of Attu. 



