VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 267 



*' myfelf with fome others to Zamicka» 

 *' where I arrefted the fecretary of the fe- 

 *^ nate, who had arrived from Peter iburgh, 

 ** and obliged him to deliver up all the let- 

 ** ters of the chancery. After taking every 

 " thing that belonged to me and two hun- 

 ** dred inhabitants of Kamfchatka, I went 

 ** down to the harbour j where I feized on 

 ** three fhips, chofe for myfelf the ftrong- 

 *' eft, and left the reft difmafted. 



Having freed this veflel, which was 

 ** called the St* Peter, from the ice, I em- 

 ** barked vnth every thing neceflary, and 

 *' fet fail on the 12th of May, 1 771* I had 

 ** fixty-feven perfons with me on boards 

 ** eight officers, eight married women, and a 

 '* young woman known by the title of the 

 " Princefs : the reft confifted of the crew, 

 ** In this manner I departed from Kam- 

 ^* fchatka, and palling the latitude of 52.** 



