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the sumnier season, comprising the 

 mouths from April to October, will 

 give employment to eight ships, 

 while in the winter season, from 

 October to April, we can keep seven 

 vessels rnnniiig, without counting 

 the Avhale-ships of our Company, 

 the number of which will probably 

 reach four. 



For the summer season of 1854 

 the voyages of our vessels should 

 be arranged in the following man- 

 ner : 



1. One of the smaller vessels, 

 perhaps the brig "Konstantin," 

 should sail from Sitka about the 

 middle of April with supplies for 

 the Islands of Atka and Attn, and 

 for the Kurile district, taking the 

 furs from these islands to the port 

 of Ayan, where the brig should 

 arrive not later than the middle of 

 July. On this vessel there should 

 be an official of the Company in- 

 trusted with the inspection of the 

 Company's stations in the districts 

 of Atka, the Kurile Islands, and 

 Kamchatka. [This agent must ob- 

 serve and keepli recorcFof all for^ 

 eign ships seen during the voyage, 

 and of the position of the same 

 when observed, for the information 

 of commanders of our armed cruis^ 

 ers and of the colonial authorities 



in ISitka, Kamchatka, and Ayan. 



This vessel should set out ui)on the 

 return voyage at the end of Au- 

 gust or the beginnin g of September, 

 following its previous course, and 

 returning to New Archangel with 

 the agent, [who is to repeat the ob- 

 servations prescribed for the out- 

 ward voyage.] 



be sent to New Archangel in 1853. 

 In the establishment of constant 

 communications around the world 

 the number of the Company's ves- 

 sels in the Colonies will always 

 remain the same, that is to say, in 

 tlie summer months, from April to 

 October, there will be eight, and 

 from October to April seven ves- 

 sels, without counting the whaling- 

 vessels, the number of which, by 

 rough estimate, will be increased 

 to four. 



Hence the movements of the co- 

 lonial fleet during the summer nav- 

 igation, beginning in 1854, may be 

 arranged in the following manner: 



I. One vessel of the second 

 class — for instance, the brig "Con- 

 stantine" — must be dispatched 

 from Sitka about the middle of 

 Aj)ril with supplies for the Island 

 of Atka, or Atta, and for the Kurile 

 district, to bring goods from those 

 islands to Ayan, where the vessel 

 must arrive not later than the mid- 

 dle of July. By this same vessel 

 there may be dispatched and landed 

 the Company's agents sent for in- 

 spection to Kamchatka, where the 

 vessel can stop on its passage from 

 the Atka district to the Kurile dis- 

 trict, without losing much time, at 

 the most important period for the 

 Kamchatka trade, the middle of 

 May, that is to say, by the time of 

 the arrival there of the vessel com- 

 ing around the world. 



On arriving at Ayan this vessel 

 will be placed at the disposal of 

 the Governor of the port of Ayan 

 to maintain communication with 

 Petrovsky, and, in future, until a 

 vessel has been built specially for 

 that port, for voyages with mer- 

 chandize and for trade with Gishig 

 and the other ports of the Sea of 

 Okotsk. At the end of August, or 

 early in September, this vessel will 

 be sent back with the despatches 

 last received and with goods for 

 the Kamchatka trade, and will re- 



*By obsevvintr these Rules the furs from the Atka and Kurile districts will always 

 reach Ay.an in lime for transportation to Yakutsk, and will not have to be carried to 

 New Arrhaugel, as has been dune in late years, for shipment to the port of Ayan in 

 tlio foUuwiiii; yoar. Under the old system the furs needlessly incur twice the risk of 

 carriage by sea. 



