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CHAP. VIII. 



PROM KOTZEBUE's SOUND TO OOXALASHKA. 



JN ow that we had found a place of refuge for the 

 next year, I wished to pass the few days which 

 this sea allowed for navigation, on the Asiatic 

 coast, in order to become acquainted with its inha- 

 bitants, and to compare them with the Americans. 

 I therefore steered my course to the south, on a 

 morning when the wind was E.N.E., to see the land 

 in the neighbourhood of Cape Espenberg. At noon 

 our latitude, by observation, was 66'' 48' 47". Near 

 Cape Espenberg two remarkable hills lay S.E. 18°, 

 and Cape Krusenstern N.E. '22°. The wind ceased, 

 and as we had a perfect calm on the 15th of 

 August, I succeeded in taking several distances 

 between the sun and moon, the longitude calculated 

 from which, and reduced to noon was l65° 15' 30" ; 

 that given by the chronometer differed only a few mi- 

 nutes. My intention was to pass near the E. coast 

 of Asia, and from thence to St. Lawrence Bay j but 

 as we had gloomy w^eather on the l6th and 17th, 

 and a high wind from the S. and S. S. W., we were 

 able to make but little progress. 



August 18th. The wind still continued to blow 

 violently from the S., with such a thick fog as we 



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