CHAPTER XIX. 
WE ENTER THE GULP OF PENJINKS AND EBACH OUR HIGHEST NORTHERN 
LATITUDE, AFTER WHICH WE RETURN TO THE OKOTSK, AND CROSS OVER 
TO THE COAST OP SIBERIA — WE NARROWLY ESCAPE SHIPWRECK, AND 
FINALLY ARRIVE AT A PLACE CALLED OLA, WHERE WE ARE REGALED BY 
THE SIGHT OP BULLOCKS AND THE TASTE OF MILK. 
The day after our successful race against time and a 
flood-tide, we once more hove up the anchor and con- 
tinued our survey. We now, steering to the northward 
along the west coast of Kamtschatka, entered the Gulf 
of Penjinks, up which we ran as high as lat. 61® 20' N., 
when, for want of time and favourable weather, we 
turned again to the southward, and retraced our way as 
far as the edge of the Okotsk Sea, when we stretched 
across the mouth of the double gulf for the east coast 
of “Siberia the frozen,” and, upon sighting this latter 
during the following day, recommenced the survey. 
We found our newly-discovered coal burning very 
badly. It was with the utmost difficulty that we could 
keep up a moderate amount of steam ; and, upon round- 
ing a jutting point of land shortly after noon, we en- 
countered a current against which we could make no 
headway: in fact, we lost ground for some hours. The 
captain therefore determined to commence the next 
morning and use our good coal as long as it lasted, hoping 
that at any rate it would hold out until we should leave 
