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were Captain Chirikov, Lieutenants Chikhachev and Plautin, 

 Professor of Astronomy Delisle de la Croyere, Fleet Master 

 Dementiev, mate Elagin, one guard marine, one commissary, 

 the assistant surgeon Lau, sailors, soldiers, as well as sons of 

 Kamchatkan cossacks, likewise [a total of] 76 men.^s 



On June 4, about nine o'clock, we sailed at last out of Avacha 

 Bay into the ocean and entered on our real voyage with favorable 

 wind and weather. We sailed with southwest and south-south- 

 west winds on the initial ESE and SE by E courses, so that on 

 the eighth day of our journe}^ that is to say on June 11, we found 

 ourselves 155 Dutch miles ^^ from Avacha in latitude 46° 47'.^^ 



On June 12 we noticed for the first time rather distinct signs 

 of land to the south or southeast of us. The sea being quite calm 

 we observed various kinds of seaweed suddenly drifting about 

 our ship in large quantities, especially the sea oak,^^ which do 



in Waxel's report {ibid., p. 282). If account be taken of the death 

 seemingly overlooked by Waxel (p. 282, footnote 6) the total complement 

 of the St. Peter would seem to have been 77. This was the figure arrived 

 at by Captain Bertholf (Vol. i, p. 341). 



36 This likewise agrees with the figure resulting from the addition of 

 the number (54) of men present on the return of the St. Paul to Kam- 

 chatka as given by Chirikov in the list accompanying his supplementary 

 report (Vol. i, p. 326) to the number (22) of men who died or were lost 

 as itemized in Chirikov's journal and summarized in his report {ibid., 

 pp. 321-322). This was also the figure arrived at by Captain Bertholf 

 {ibid., p. 348). 



3' Designated German miles in the log book in Vol. i ; fifteen to a mean 

 degree of latitude (see, above, footnote 10). 



38 The log book (Vol. i, p. 56) has 156^ miles and latitude 46° 40'. 



39 In the MS: " verschiedene Seegewiichse, quercum marimun." 

 "Meereiche" (sea oak), the word used in the published version, is only 

 a literal translation of qiicrciis marina. In pre-Linnaean botanical 

 literature quercus marina is the name of the common alga, Fucus vesiculo- 

 sus Linnaeus, of the Arctic Atlantic. The representative form of this 

 species in the North Pacific appears to be Fucus evanescens Agardh 

 (Kjellman, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., Vol. 20 (N. S.), 1882- 

 83. No. 5, pp. 200 and 202, and Vol. 23 (N. S.), 1888-89, No. 8, p. 34), 

 which is common around the Commander Islands. 



The clause "which do not . . . towards the land" does not appear 

 in the MS. (S) 



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