956 FROM kotzeeuk's sound 



We found several people on the promontory 

 who were on the point of running away ; we 

 hastened to detain them by some presents, and 

 gained the confidence of these timid people, to 

 such a degree, that, to our great joy, they made 

 us in return a present of sixteen wild geese and 

 two fresh-killed seals. We did not loose a mo- 

 ment ; every one of the sailors now turned 

 cook 5 five geese were sufficient to satisfy us, and 

 the others were saved for the llurick. The 

 bay is not inhabited, and only visited by the 

 Tschukutskoi on account of the chase ; the geese 

 appeared to have been caught in nooses, and the 

 seals killed with arrows. After these good people 

 had satisfied their curiosity, they continued their 

 way to the east, to the mouth of the bay, and we, 

 being strengthened by the nourishing meal, con- 

 tinued our way to the N. W., where the bay takes 

 its direction between the high mountains. As we 

 could not take the seals into our heavily loaded 

 boat, we left them on shore till our return. We 

 had proceeded three miles when we reached two 

 tolerably high and rocky mountains, inhabited only 

 by sea fowls. I called the one to the east, which is 

 about three miles in circumference, after my first 

 mate Chramtschenko ; and the westerly one, which 

 is a little smaller, received the name of Petrof, my 

 second mate. The depth was here above twenty, 

 and between the islands only twelve fathoms. As 

 soon as you have passed the islands, the depth de- 



