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course, and weather were the same as on the day before, though it 

 stormed in the night. The sliizhiv [servant] Kharitonov died. — 

 There was no change in the wind and the course on the 2ist; 

 towards the evening, however, we encountered a storm, and the 

 soldier Luka Zaviakov^^s died. 



On October 22 we had bright weather, sunshine, heavy frost, 

 and westerly wind, and the course was set N by E straight for 

 the mainland, a decision taken suddenly, since it was reported to 

 Lieutenant \\'axel that there were only fifteen casks of water on 

 hand, 270 of which three^'i had become damaged and were almost 

 empty. Because of the many other heavy expenses nobody had 

 been willing to be responsible for iron hoops on the barrels, 

 although on board wooden hoops decay during such a long 

 voyage. "2 



On the 23rd of October the wind changed and, with the wind, 

 the eagerness of the officers to go to America. During the fore- 

 noon, therefore, we ran with southeast wind and in the afternoon 

 and night with east wind at such a rate,^" in spite of the bad 

 weather and hail showers, that in twenty-four hours we made 31 

 miles, and thus, with thirteen casks of water, we pushed on close 

 to America with the intention of either reaching Kamchatka or 

 stopping at the earliest opportunity at the nearest convenient 

 island. This was proclaimed openly in order to discourage the 

 sick still more. 



On October 24 the wind and the weather were as on the day 

 before; in the evening, however, the wind became northerly. 

 We had progressed with it so far that, according to Mr. Waxel's 

 reckoning, we were believed to be 134 and, according to second 



269 Spelled "Sawialow" in the Pallas text, which in EngUsh translitera- 

 tion would be Savialov or Zavialov. 



270 On this decision see the log book for October 23 (Vol. i, p. 196), 

 I P. M. and footnote 108. 



271 The MS has "two," which tallies with the statement in the next 

 paragraph. 



27^ In the MS this sentence differs considerably but is too obscure to 

 admit of translation. (S) 



2" The MS has in addition: "toward the west." 



