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CHAP. 
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EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC SHORES 
save our lives. We at last, however, succeeded 
in getting out a couple of anchors ; and having 
lowered and lashed the carriage, so as to secure 
it from any violent motion, passed the night in 
a state of extreme anxiety and terror. As the 
morning broke, we discerned the Asiatic coast 
towards the south ; but the gale continuing, we 
could not raise our anchors before noon ; when, 
again getting under weigh, we sailed with more 
moderate weather to the promontory of Clium- 
burskaia, in Asia, where we landed our carriage. 
The village of Chumhurskuia consists of a few 
miserable sheds, whose tenants were busied 
hauling their nets, when we arrived. So prodi- 
gious was the draught of fishes made at every 
haul, that the waggons stationed with oxen to 
carry off 1 the produce of the fishery were inade- 
quate to its removal. A single haul was some- 
times sufficient to fill two or three of those wag- 
gons. The fishes thus taken were conveyed to 
a place for preparing them, belonging to the 
owners of the land : here, being first salted, 
they were exposed for drying in the sun. The 
variety caught was very great. We saw them 
draw out Prussian carp, pike, sturgeon, ster- 
let, a sort of large bream, fish resembling 
perch, but of very considerable size, and those 
immense crawfish before mentioned. The shore 
