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place of landing in the Kuriles, the island Figurnyi, and 

 to identify it with its present name. He discovered this 

 island on the 3d of July. Mliller says that, according to 

 the ship's journal, it is in latitude 43° 50' N., and in spite 

 of the fact that Spangberg's determinations in longitude, 

 based on the ship's calculations, were as a rule somewhat 

 inaccurate, which in a measure is shown by Nipon's being 

 located so far west, he is nevertheless in this case right. 

 Fio-nrnyi is the island Sikotan and has the astronomical 

 position of this island on the chart (according to Golovnin 

 43° 53' N. and 146° 43' 30" E.). This opinion is corrobo- 

 rated by a map of the Russian discoveries published at 

 St. Petersburg in 1787, and by Captain Broughton, who 

 described the island in the fall of 1796, and gave it the 

 name of Spangberg's Island, in honor of its first dis- 

 coverer. With this point fixed, it is not difficult to 

 understand and follow Spangberg. 



Spangberg labored under very unfavorable circum- 

 stances. It rained constantly, the coast was enveloped in 

 heavy fogs, and at times it was impossible to see land at 

 a distance of eight yards. From Figurnyi he sailed 

 southwest, but under these difficult circumstances he 

 took the little islands of Taroko and the northern point 

 of Yezo to be one continuous coast (Seljonyi, the green 

 island), and anchored at the head of Walvisch bay, his 

 Bay of Patience. From here he saw the western shore of 

 the bay, reached its farthest point. Cape Notske, and 

 discovered the peninsula of Sirokot and parts of the 

 island Kumashiri, which he called Konosir and Tsyn- 

 trounoi respectively; but, as he turned from Cape Notske 

 and sailed east into the Pacific, between Sikotan and the 



