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meat tins were a great acquisition to the meagre 

 furniture of the Tuski, who were dehghted to replace 

 their scanty and cumbrous wooden vessels, scooped 

 with great pains out of drift wood, or others made 

 of thin pieces, bent and hooped, which, although 

 lighter, leaked perpetually, by the canisters, which 

 they scraped bright, and put neat handles to. Indeed, 

 there was great ingenuity displayed in the appli- 

 cation of everything transferred from us to them, 

 nor was the smallest scrap refused; a tiny bit of 

 wood was accepted with the same alacrity as would 

 be shown upon the offer of a knife or a necklace ; and 

 although we might not be able to conceive the use it 

 would be put to, some futm-e occasion would display 

 its application. 



I have before spoken of a self-called, and I 

 rather think, self-constituted missionary, who visited 

 the ship in November; we were favoured by his 

 presence on more than one occasion subsequently; 

 and when we came to understand him better, were 

 informed, I believe with much exaggeration, that he 

 had been regidarly ordained at Kolyma by the Greek 

 priests, and commissioned to convey Gospel tidings to 

 his countrymen. His code of ethics was, however, 

 greatly at variance with that of our great Master. 

 He communicated his intention of proceeding shortly 



