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and said, that is Lagediack. He was greatly 

 frightened to see himself represented by such sin- 

 gular figures, and seemed to fear that he would be 

 obliged, by magic, to assume such a shape ; the 

 others laughed heartily at the comical Lagediack 

 on the tables, while he himself stood in great un- 

 easiness, expecting the terrible metamorphosis. I 

 soon relieved him from his painful situation by 

 effacing his name; he embraced me full of grati- 

 tude, and begged me to transfer Langin to the 

 table ; but the latter, who had looked at my con- 

 jurations timidly at a distance, on hearing this 

 proposal, ran, with loud cries, to the other side of 

 the ship, where he concealed himself j his com- 

 rades laughed at him, and my conjurations were 

 finished for to-day. I tried to explain to Lage- 

 diack, that I wanted him to draw the whole island 

 group of Otdia on the table. He took a pencil, and 

 drew the group in a circle, under the lee of which 

 he marked five channels, which he called Tier ; he 

 then turned the sights of the compass to the high 

 island, in S.W., saying, ej] qfy ruo Tier (there two 

 passages). This news rejoiced me the more as 

 we should not be obliged to go the same way 

 back ; and, perhaps, nearer to us we might meet 

 with a passage more convenient and secure than 

 Rurick Straits. I then made Lagediack draw the 

 other group of islands, which he called Enegup ; 

 and he again made a circle of seventeen islands, 

 with several channels to the leeward, then pointed 



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