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hand, perfected ourselves in liis. When we left 

 Radack, Kadu immediately began to keep an ac- 

 count of time, by making a knot every evening on 

 a string ; but after we had been a month at sea, 

 he gave up his account, because he was convinced 

 that we were now wandering at random about the 

 sea, as he had done on his voyage from Ulle to 

 Radack. After the hurricane had abated, and the 

 ship had been put in order, as well as could be 

 done, we continued our voyage to Oonalashka, 

 during which we had to contend with many violent 

 storms. 



On the 18th of April, we saw the island of 

 Amuchta, and on the 21st we were in great danger 

 between Oonemack and Oonalashka. Circum- 

 stances obliged us to come pretty near to the land 

 lying opposite to us, when a sudden storm drove 

 us on the coast, and we could already calculate 

 the moment of our destruction, when the wind un- 

 expectedly veered : a change very frequent near 

 high land. 



The high mountains, covered with ice, of which 

 there are a great many here, astonished Kadu 

 beyond measure. He would not believe that it was 

 land, and it is not surprising, that he who had 

 hitherto seen notliing but small, low islands, covered 

 with the loveliest verdure, should not recognize as 

 land, masses of ice, towering into the clouds. I 

 never saw him regard any thing with more astonish- 

 ment than snow. To satisfy his curiosity, he one 



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