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CHAPTER XVIIL 
Passage from Loo Clioo eastward — Arrive at Port Lloyd in the Yslas del Azobispo — 
Description of those Islands — Passage to Kamtchatka — Arrival at Petrapaulski — Notice 
of that Place — Departure — Pass Beering’s Strait — Enter Kotzebue Sound — Prosecute 
the Voyage to the Northward — Stopped by the Ice — Return to the Southward — Dis- 
cover Port Clarence and Grantley Harbour — Description of these Harbours — Return 
to Kotzebue Sound — Ship strikes upon a Shoal. 
On the 25th of May we took oar departure from Loo Choo, and CHAP, 
steered to the eastward in search of some islands which were doubt- 
fully placed in the charts. On the third day we arrived within a few May, 
miles of the situation of Amsterdam Island without seeing any land, 
and passed it to the northward, as near as the wind wmuld permit. 
The weather was very unfavourable for discovery, being thick and rainy, 
or misty, with very variable winds. On the 3d of June we regretted June, 
exceedingly not having clear weather, as the appearance of plover, 
sandlings, flocks of shearwaters, and several petrel and albatrosses, 
created a belief that we w'ere near some island. 
Three days afterwards we were upon the spot where the Island 
of Disappointment is placed in the latest charts. The weather was 
tolerably clear, but no land could be seen ; and as we were so near the 
situation of a group of islands which, if in existence, would occupy 
several days in examining, I did not wait to search for Disappointment 
Island, which is said to be very small. I have since been informed 
that this island, which in all probability is the same as the island of 
Rosario, was seen by a whaler, which, not being able to find it a second 
time, bestowed upon it the name of Invisible Island. It is said to lie 
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