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island ; regarding the high land as something distinct. If the hardy 
and self-willed Spanberg was the one who reported the land Aug. 14th, 
and if he saw the high land about Cape Prince of Wales, as several old 
charts allege, he would have been the last to admit that the relatively 
small and adjacent island now seen, should be identified with his dis- 
covery. 
Aug. 17/28. The breeze having been strong and fair an obser- 
vation at noon indicated that the latitude was 64° 27’ and that the 
Gabriel had sailed 164 miles since noon of the 16th. In the 
afternoon the weather was clear and the wind became lght. 
(The Gabriel must have come out of the strait this afternoon). 
Notes.—A distance of 164 miles from the position of the previous 
noon would have put the Gabriel in latitude 63° 38’. The distance on 
the general course sailed by the Gabriel from 66° 02’ to 64° 27’ is about 
107 miles. It is possible that in copying or printing 104 miles has be- 
come transmuted to 164 miles. There is an obvious error here of some 
kind. 
Aug. 18/29. (Lauridsen does not refer to any record for this 
day, but itis probable that the wind continued light and the 
weather fair and that the Gabriel was slowly working her way 
westward and southward in the vicinity of Cape Chukotski.) 
Aug. 19/30. In the afternoon being in the vicinity of the 
place where they had met the Chukchi boat on the outward 
voyage, four baidars were seen with their crews pulling for the 
vessel, which accordingly lay by for them to come up with her. 
There were ten natives to each baidar, or forty in all. They 
brought reindeer meat, fish, and fresh water in large bladders for 
sale for which they were suitably rewarded, while the crew of the 
Gabriel obtained from them skins of the red and the polar foxes 
and four walrus teeth, which the natives bartered for needles, 
fiint-and-steel for striking fire, and iron. These Chukchi told 
them that they went over land to trade at the Kolyma River, 
carrying their goods with reindeer, and that they never went by 
sea. They had long known the Russians and one of them had 
even been to the Anadyrsk fort to trade. From this man they 
‘had hopes of gaining valuable information but he could tell them 
nothing more than they had learned from the first Chukchis who 
had been questioned. 
Aug. 29 . . 
Aug. 20/31 to Seats: (For this period the documents accessi- 
ble to me give no information, but the Gabriel was doubtless 
