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ishing how the savages can make a course of fifty- 

 six miles against the N.E. monsoon, to a point like 

 Miadi, which they can hardly see at six miles* 

 distance. As they only tack, they are two days and 

 a night on the voyage, without any other means 

 to calculate their course than the stars, which they 

 see only with the naked eyes ; a skill which the 

 Europeans do not possess. 



When Langemui heard that we intended to 

 leave him to-morrow, he was sincerely sorry, and 

 immediately sent out some of his people to gather 

 cocoa-nuts, and others to fish ; during the whole 

 night we saw people walking about the reefs with 

 fire, with which they entice the fish, and then har- 

 poon them. 



The 13th of March. Already, at day -break, our 

 old friend, Langemui, came to us, loaded with cocoa- 

 nuts and fish, and soon after, we weighed anchor, 

 with a fair fresh E.N.E. wind, and fine weather. 

 The old man stood for a long time in his boat, and 

 bid us adieu, waving both his hands. To this 

 group of Ailu I gave the name of the man under 

 whose command I made the first voyage round the 

 world — Krusenstern. 



At seven o'clock, we readied a channel lying 

 towards the north, through which I sailed, as the 

 wind favoured us, though we had only thirty fa- 

 thoms' breadth. From thence I took the course 

 to N. by W., to reach the group of Udirick, which 

 could be no other than Kutusoff 's group. 



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