*4 ^OYAGri FROM OKHOTZK 



tbefc remonftrances, and flighted all dangers, fa t 

 might only accomplifh my defign and that of my em-" 

 ployers. 



The above related attacks upon us promifed no fe- : 

 curity for the future ; and fo much the lefs as they 

 Hill never ceafed from falling upon our baidars which 

 from time to time we fent out upon difcoveries, not- 

 withftandihg that after every attempt they gave us frefr* 

 hoftages. Yet* with all this, we refolved to winter on 

 the iflancj , and to induce them by friendly treatment 

 and little prefents to a peaceable acquaintance with us, 

 at the fame time to convince them that by a favage 

 behaviour they would deprive themfelves of their own* 

 repofe, and frequently of their lives. In order to fhew 

 them a manner of life with which they were hitherto- 

 unacquainted, I applied my f elf to the building of little 

 dwelling-houfes, and a fort, though at firft they were 

 only of wood and plaifter. In this building we were 

 very fuccefsful, though it coft us great trouble. But 

 as they did not even now del) ft from their perpetual 

 hoftilities as well on the baidars as oh ourfelves, I 

 ftrove, in order as much as poflible to prevent the 

 fhedding of blood, and yet to provide for our own 

 fafety, to let them fee the force and violent effecls of 

 our powder. I caufed a hole to be bored in one of the 

 largeft rocks, had it filled with powder, and fixed a 

 firelock before it, to which a long firing was tied, the 

 extremity whereof reached to a cavity in another roek^ 

 made for the fafety of him who was to pull it* Im- 

 mediately as he jerked the trigger, I gave the lign for 

 a number of mufquets to be fired. By means of the 

 great concourfe of peaceably difpofed Konaeges who 



were 



