208 BERING ISLAND. [chap. ix. 



couutry to the south is especially suitable for them, and food is 

 abundant. Should this prove to be the case, the enterprise will be 

 eventually of the greatest benefit to the islanders. 



It was with much regret at our inability to make a more 

 lengthened stay that we bade adieu to Nikolsky and its inhabitants. 

 The season was getting far advanced, however, and we had decided 

 on revisiting Kamschatka ere we finally set our faces southward. 

 "We had not as yet obtained the Kamschatkan Bighorn, of which 

 we had so long been in search, and we were also anxious to secure 

 some walrus ; so getting on board our pet fur seal and the other 

 natural history curiosities we had collected on the island, we 

 weighed anchor and stood away to the S.W. for Cape Klin on the 

 coast of Kamschatka. 



