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THfi AFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 
Nootka Sound, he determined to travel over land 
to Kamschatka ; and for this purpose, after cross- 
ing the British Channel to Ostend, he proceeded 
by Denmark and the Sound to Stockholm, from 
which he attempted to traverse the Gulf of Both- 
nia on the ice ; but, as the middle was not frozen, 
was obliged to return. Proceeding from Stock- 
holm into the Arctic Circle, he walked round the 
head of the Gulf, and descended on the eastern 
side to Petersburgh. There his extraordinary 
appearance, wanting both stockings and shoes, 
and the means of supplying himself with either, 
procured him an invitation to dine with the Por- 
tuguese ambassador, from whom he obtained a 
supply of twenty guineas on the credit of Sir Jo- 
seph Banks, and by whose interest he was per- 
mitted to accompany a detachment of stores to 
Yakutz, 6000 miles eastward, in Siberia. From 
Yakutz he proceeded to Oczakow on the coast of 
the Kamschatkan sea, which he was prevented 
from crossing by the ice, and obliged to return to 
his former residence for the winter. At Yakutz 
he was seized by two Russian soldiers in the name 
of the empress, and in the depth of winter con- 
veyed in a sledge through the deserts of Northern 
Tartary to the frontiers of the Polish dominions, 
where he was liberated, with the assurance, that 
if he returned to Russia he would be hanged. In 
the most destitute condition he arrived at Kon- 
