186 FROM CONCEPTION BAY, &C. 



After we had sent a courier to the chancellor, 

 with our despatches, and all our journals for our 

 first year's voyage, and waited in vain for the post 

 from St. Petersburg, which usually arrives here at 

 this time of the year, we succeeded, in spite of the 

 contrary wind, in leaving Avatscha Bay. 



