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in one part of the ifle is a lofty hill of a moft rugged form ; having to the eafl- a 

 dreadful precipice. This iiland Teemed fifty verfts long and forty broad. 



They afterwards vifited four other ifles ; near to the third was a rockfeparated 

 about eleven fathoms from the fliore, connefted by the fliore, at low water, to the 

 ifland. It confifted of brittle granite, and was about ten yards hi(>-h. About fix 

 yards from the bottom was a declivity, on which were placed ten fir trees with 

 their roots upwards ; over the roots were placed planks covered with gravel, along- 

 the fides were boards fix fpans high, and over the whole had been a roof now 

 fallen down, formed of fmall pieces of floating timber, faftened with leathern 

 ftraps, and covered with gravel : it had one entrance from land, another from 

 Cea; and was about five fathoms and a half long, and four broad, and of mod 

 coarfe workmanfhip. On the fame ifle were traces of a hut, and two cellars. 

 —No animals were ken on them but polar bears and ar^ic foxes. 



By the accounts of thefe adventurers, the fiirthefl: ifle mufl: extend far to the 

 eafl, for they ailert, that it lay oppofite to the bay of TfdaouH. On this ifland 

 the provifions for their dogs began to fail. They were obliged to fet out on their 

 return on the 12th oi April. Their whole journey, and their return to the con- 

 tinent, was comprehended in five or fix days. Neue Nordifche Beytrage,\. 231. 



I fliall endeavour to make fome addition to the accounts of the Tfchutfchi given 

 by Captain Cook, from two relations preferved in the Neiie Nordifche Beytrage • 

 as any thing relative to fo remote a people cannot but be acceptable. 



The firft is from the journal of the Cojfack Nicolai .Daurkin ; who, by private 

 direftion from his commander, feigned a defertion from the RuJJtan pofl: on the 

 Anadyr, to the neareft pofl: of the Tfchutfchi, was well received by them, and 

 continued with them from July 20th, 1763, to the winter of the fame year. This 

 journal relates chiefly to the ifles intermediate between ^« and America, in Beh- 

 ring's fireight. In O£fober,w\\en the fea between the JJlatic and American land was 

 frozen, he procured a fledge and a couple of rein-deer, and, attended by one of 

 the Tfchutfchi, who had adopted him as a kinfman, pafl'ed over to the firfl: ifland 

 and arrived there in five or fix hours. The inhabitants received them very kindly - 

 but inftantly afked for fome tobacco leaves ; which being prefented to them, they 

 in return prefented the travellers with fome of their cloathing made of furs. 

 The natives wore drefles made of the flcins of rein-deer ; and lived on the flefh of 

 whales, walrufes, and feals. For want of wood, they dreflTed their food by means 

 of lamps, made of a firone hollowed on the top, into which they poured train- 

 oil, and into that they put a wick made of a foft mofs, a fort oi fphagnum or bogmofs, 

 tied with firings, made of the bowels of animals : with thefe lamps they not 



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