TO THE COAST OF AMERICA. ay 



receiving this intelligence, I difpatched thither from the 

 harbour two parties ; the firft confining of thirty ruffian 

 workmen, and the fecond of Konacges and Fox- 

 Aleutes, under a particular leader, with orders to look 

 out for a convenient place on Aphagnak for making a 

 harbour, over againft the iile of Shuyek, and there, 

 according to a plan I gave them, to eredtafort; in 

 the mean time they were to fit out in the harbour the 

 galleot, the three church-doctors, as a tranfport. On 

 the 19th of May I received from the illands Aphagnak 

 and Shuyek the news, that after the junction of our 

 forces there, every attack of the Kinaitzes had been de- 

 feated. Afterwards a fort was raifed on Aphagnak; and 

 the foundation of another, according to a plan I had 

 given with them, at the Kinaifkoi bay : and then, lea- 

 ving behind them a number of people for completing 

 the building, they proceeded along the mores of Ame- 

 rica quite down to the promontory of St. Elias. The 

 iHand Aphagnak, as well as the oppofite more of Ame- 

 rica and the ifland Kadyak, poffefs excellent harbours, 

 a fertile foil, fifli and fowl of various kinds in abun- 

 dance ; the meadows produce line grafs and excellen t 

 pafturage ; likewife plenty of timber that might be em- 

 ployed in building veflels and houfes, as well on Shuyek 

 as on the more of America. 



This year came far greater numbers than in the firflyear, 

 of the inhabitants of America as well as of the iflands, 

 to our feveral harbours; at firft with great variety of 

 ceremonies, and afterwards familiarly, almoft every 

 day. At thefe vifits we neglected nothing that could 

 give them proof of our obliging and friendly clifpofiti - 

 pm. The wind in this year bio wed moft ftrongly from the 



north 



