56 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



Islands, make in all about 300, who reside in the 

 village. There we received our first news from Europe 

 through American newspapers, whereof the last were 

 printed in San Francisco in April 1879, and brought 

 from thence by one of the Company's steamers. On 

 the 19th of August we left Behring Island and set 

 our course for Yokohama, where we arrived on the 

 evening of the 2d of September. 



