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that peninfula, and to have embarked on the Eaftern fide in one 
of the Ruffian velTels that trade totheWeftern ffiores of Ame- 
rica ; but finding that the navigation was completely obftruded 
by the ice, he returned again to Yakutz, in order to wait for the 
conclufion of the Winter. 
Such was his lituation, when, in confequence of fufpicions 
not hitherto explained, or refentments for which no reafon is 
affigned, he was feized, in the Emprefs's name, by two Ruffian 
foldiers, who placed him in a fledge, and conveying him, in the 
depth of Winter, through the Deferts of the Northern Tartary^ 
left him at laft on the Frontiers of the Polifli Dominions. As 
they parted they told him, that if he returned to Ruffia, he 
would certainly be hanged, but that if he chofe to go back to 
England, they wiffied him a pleafant journey. 
In the midft of poverty, covered with rags, infefted with the 
nfual accompaniments of fuch cloathing, worn with continued 
hardffiip, exhaufted by difeafe, without friends, without credit, 
unknown, and full of mifery, he found his way to Koningfberg. 
— There, in die hour of his uttermofl: diftrefs, he refolved once 
more to have recourfe to his old Benefa6tor, and he luckily 
D found 
