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constant pain in my breast ; the farther we pro- 

 ceeded to the north, the worse effect had the cold 

 air on me ; but, I had still, however, hope and 

 courage to be able to execute my undertaking. 



Kadu, who found himself very well in Oona- 

 lashka, though he did not like the air, was much 

 surprised that he did not see a single tree on 

 the island, and that neither cocoa-nuts nor bread- 

 fruit were to be had. He took a lively interest 

 in all the new objects which he saw *, the Aleu- 

 tian mode of living under ground did not 

 please him at all ; he thought it was better in 

 Kadack and Ulle, and asked us whether people 

 lived so at St. Petersburg? We gave him such 

 a splendid description of that city, that he was 

 seized with the greatest desire to see it soon. He 

 looked at the large oxen with astonishment and 

 fear; and his joy was without bounds, that the meat 

 which we ate daily on board the ship was the flesh 

 of these animals. We asked him why he was so 

 rejoiced, and he timidly confessed, that he thought 

 we ate men, and that it might one day be his turn. 

 Soon after our departure from Radack, he had been 

 present when a barrel of salt meat was opened ; 

 he observed a piece of the ribs ; he remembered 

 the warning of his friends, not to go with us, be- 

 cause we ate the blacks ; from that moment, the 

 poor fellow regarded himself as ship-provision, 

 and looked forward, with liorror, to the moment 

 when we should be in want of food. 



