S68 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 



** 52', entered the channel of the Kurik 

 ** iHes, commonly called Jedfo. 



Purfuing my courfe towafds the north- 

 •* eaft, I landed on the illand of Bernighia- 

 ** na^ fituated to the eaft, under the fifty- 

 ** fifth degree of latitude, and the ninth me- 

 " ridian from the port which I had left* 

 •* Here I found M* Ochotyn, with eighty 



men* This Polilh officer^ according to 

 ** what he related, had faved himfelf in the 

 ** fame manner as 1^ and had eftablifhed 

 ** himfelf with his crew in thofe Amtrican 

 " iilands called Jlknth. He had formed an 

 ** alliance with the inhabitants of the coun- 

 ** try i and his people tiad contracted mar- 

 ** riages amongft them. In this ifland I 

 *' left three of my men ; and he gave me 

 " letters to ihew wherever I might judge it 

 ** neceffary to do fo. 



** On the 26th of May, fleering away a 



** confiderablc 



