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ing and pulling off their caps, poffibly a piece of politenefs they learned from the 
Ruffians. They treated him with a fong and dance, and parted friends ; but not 
without a moft remarkable and confequential event :—A year after the interview 
between Captain Cook and the T/chut/ki, a party of thefe people came to the 
frontier poft of the Ruffians, and voluntarily offered friendfhip and tribute. Thefe 
generous people, whom fear could not influence, were overcome by the civility 
and good conduct of our illuftrious commander : they miftook him and his people 
for Ruffians, and, imagining that a change of behaviour had taken place, tendered 
to their invaders a lafting league *. Poffibly the munificent emprefs may blufh 
at the obligation conferred by means of Briti/h fubjeéts, in procuring to her empire 
a generous ally, at the inftant her armed neutrality contributed to deprive us of 
millions of lawful fubjects. 
From the fhortnefs of the interview little knowlege could be gained of their 
cuftoms. I fhall only obferve, that they bury their dead under heaps of ftones, or 
carnedds: feveral were feen here with the rib of a whale on the top inftead of a 
pillar + ; a proof of the univerfality of thefe memorials of the dead. 
The country of the T/chut/ki forms the moft north-eafterly part of dfa. Itisa 
peninfula, bounded by the bay of Tchaozin, by the Icy Sea, the ftreights of BERING, 
and the gulph and river of Anadir, which open into the fea of Kamt/chatka. It is a 
mountanous tract, totally deftitute of wood, and confequently of animals which re- 
quire the fhelter of forefts. ‘The promontory Schalot/koi, before mentioned, is the 
moft wefterly part. Whether it extends fo far north as lat. 74, as the Ru/fians 
place it, is very doubtful: there is the opinion of our great navigator againit it. 
From his own reafonings he fuppofed that the tra& from the Indigir/ka, ealtward, is 
laid down in the maps two degrees to the northward of its true pofitiont. From a 
map he had in his poffeffion, and from information he received from the Ru/fians, he 
places the mouth of the Kowyma, in lat. 68, inftead of lat. 71. 20, as the Peter/burg 
map makes it. It is therefore probable, that no part of A/a in this neighborhood 
extends further than lat. 7@, in which we muft place the Schalot/koi No/s; and 
after the example of Mr. Campdell, who formed his map of this country chiefly 
from the papers of Captain BerinG §, give the land which lies to the eaft of that 
promontory a very fouthern trend. As Captain Cook had caufe to imagine that 
the former charts erred in longitude as well as latitude, it is probable that he 
reached within fixty miles of the Schalot/Roi No/s||. There we find him on 
Auguft 29th, 1778; and from this period are enabled, from his remarks, to pro- 
ceed fecurely accurate. 
® Voy. ii. 217. + Ellis's Narrative, i, 332+ } Voyage iii, 268. § In 
Harris's Voy. ii, 1016. || Yayage ili. 270. 
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