274 VOYAGE OF KRUSENSTERN. [1808. 



tiers at this place would have all perished from famine, had they 

 not fortunately been supplied with provisions by the ship Juno, from 

 Rhode Island. This ship was purchased for the use of the company, 

 and Von Resanoff, embarking in her, sailed along the coast to Cal- 

 ifornia, endeavoring, in his way, but without success, to enter the 

 mouth of the Columbia, where he proposed to form a settlement ; 

 and having spent some time in trifling at San Francisco, he returned 

 to Kamtchatka, on his way from which to Europe he died. 



Though not one of the commercial or political objects proposed 

 by this expedition was attained, it was, nevertheless, productive of 

 great advantages, not only to the Russians, but to the cause of hu- 

 manity and of science in general ; particularly by the rectification 

 of numerous errors in the charts of the Pacific Ocean, and by the 

 exposure of the abuses in the administration of the Russian Amer- 

 ican Company's dominions, which led to the immediate removal of 

 many of them. No one could have been better qualified for the 

 direction of such an expedition than Krusenstern, whose narrative 

 is equally honorable to him as a commander, as a man of science, 

 and as a philanthropist. Those who wish to learn at what cost of 

 human life and suffering the furs of the North Pacific coasts are pro- 

 cured, will find ample information on the subject in his pages ; while, 

 at the same time, he presents instances of fortitude, perseverance, 

 and good feeling, on the part of his countrymen, calculated to coun- 

 teract, in a great measure, the unfavorable impressions, with regard 

 to them, which his other details might have produced.* 



In 1808, soon after the return of Krusenstern's ships to Europe, 

 diplomatic relations were established between Russia and the United 

 States ; and in the following year, a representation was addressed 

 by the court of St. Petersburg to the government of the Union, 

 on the subject of the illicit trade of American citizens with the 

 natives of the North Pacific coasts, by means of which those savages 

 were supplied with arms and ammunition, to the prejudice of the 

 authority and interests of the emperor and his people in that portion 



* Accounts of this expedition have been published by Krusenstern, by Lisiansky, 

 and by Langsdorf, the surgeon of the Nadeshda, all of which have been translated 

 into English and other European languages. 



Krusenstern was, soon after his return to Russia, raised to the rank of admiral. He 

 still lives at St. Petersburg, honored by his government, and esteemed by all who 

 know him. His communications frequently appear in the reports of the proceedings 

 of various scientific societies in Europe; they are chiefly respecting the hydrography 

 of the Pacific Ocean, to which subject his labors have been long and assiduously 

 devoted, with results important and beneficial to the whole world. 



