TO kotzebuf/s sound. 237 



14th of August, at eiglit A.M., we reached the pro- 

 moutory, wliich forms the northern entrance of the 

 sound, which received the name of Krusenstern. 

 What I had taken, on entering the sound, for 

 islands in the nortli, was very liigh land ; on a low 

 tongue of land which extends from it to the west, 

 were many habitations, and we saw not only people 

 running to and fro on the shore, but also two bay- 

 dares, which sought in vain to come up with us, 

 as the wind, which blew briskly, had given the 

 Rurick wings. We observed a building on an 

 elevation, resembling a European magazine j the 

 habitations on the tongue of land, which are under 

 ground, appeared like little round hills, with fences 

 of whalebones. From Cape Krusenstern, the 

 land forms a bend to the N.E., and then takes its 

 direction to the N.W., where it ends in a very high 

 promontory, which I take to be Cape Mulgrave ; 

 according to our determination it lies in 67° 30'. 

 Cook, who had no observation on that day, found 

 by estimation the latitude of Cape Mulgrave to be 

 67° 45'. This, it is true, is a difference of 15' j 

 but if it is considered that we, being at a distance 

 of thirty-five miles from the promontory, may easily 

 have made a small mistake in the latitude, and that 

 Cook having had no observation, a trifling error 

 might also have crept into his reckoning ; the 

 mean of our two latitudes, which is 67° 37' 30", 

 may be pretty near the truth. Our longitude of 



