TO THE COAST OF AMEPvlCA. 1$ 



4. In the year 1 7 Bo. a vefFel of the commercial compa- 

 ny of Panof touched at the fame promontory, under the 

 command of the pilot Otfheredin ; who, notwithstand- 

 ing his delign of wintering there, after many contents, 

 in which he loft feveral of his men, was obliged to run 

 away. 



5. In the year 1780. a few hunters on the Fox-iflands, 

 in the fervice of feveral trading companies, fitted out 

 three vefTels to fail for the coafts of North America, 

 having near 300 men on board. Thefe vefTels. were 

 under the command of the pilot Potap Saikof ; they 

 came at the latter end of Auffuft to the mores of North 

 America, ran into the Tmugatfkoi ftraights, to which 

 Cook gave the name of Sandwich Sawn, intending 

 there to winter. They thought themfelves ftrong 

 enough to repel I any attack that mould be made upoa 

 them ; but they were at laft convinced of their miftake. 

 The inhabitants prevented them from taking any kind 

 of game, and allowed them not, though fingle and 

 unarmed, to proceed farther than one verft from their 

 people. However, with great difficulty they main- 

 tained their ftation during the winter, abandoned all 

 their former projects, and fled away, after feveral of 

 their people had perifhed by hunger. 



Thefe knew at that time of my purpofe to go to the 

 ifland of Kadyak, and endeavoured by all means to 

 difTuade me from it, reprefenting the natives to me as 

 a blood-thirfty and implacable race ; and that not only 

 from the juft mentioned examples, but alfo from the 

 experience I myfelf had made of the inhabitants of the 

 Tihugatikoi promontory, who are of like difpofitions 

 with thofe of Kadyak ; hut I paid little attention to all 



