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invited us. We observed an iron lance in his Iray, 

 dare, which we recognized, by the make, to be of 

 Siberian manuflicture, where they are only made 

 for the trade with the Tschiikiitskoi. It was now 

 their time for dinner. A seal which had just been 

 killed was put in the middle ; they cut open its 

 belly, and one after the other put in his head and 

 sucked out the blood. After they had sufficiently 

 drunk in this manner, each cut himself off a piece 

 of flesh, which they devoured with the greatest 

 appetite, and it may easily be imagined how their 

 naturally frightful countenance looked after such 

 a repast. 



At nine o'clock in the morning we had clear 

 weather, and a moderate east wind, when we im- 

 mediately weighed anchor, to follow the coast to 

 the north. The latitude of our anchoring-place, 

 by observation, was 66° 16' 39", longitude 163° 41'. 

 Variation of the compass 27° east. We observed 

 the falling of the water on the coast, which takes a 

 northern direction from the Bay of Good Hope, 

 which we could not approach on account of the 

 shallowness, but only observed it from the mast- 

 head. At ten o'clock we saw the extreme point 

 of the land in the S.W. 85°. This cape was six 

 miles from us, and forms the southern entrance of 

 the sound. I called it after my friend Dr. Espen- 

 berg, who made the voyage round the world with 

 me under Captain Krusenstern. From this place I 

 steered, during the night, to the N.£. coast. On the 



