VOYAGE TO THE 
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CHAP. As we had very little to interest us in this passage, beyond that 
which always attends a material change of climate, we watched the birds 
June, which flew around us, and found that the tropic birds deserted us in 
35° N. The brown albatross and shearwaters fell off in 40° N. In 
41° we saw the wandering albatross and black divers ; some petrel in 45°; 
puffins, fulmar petrels, and gannets in 49°, and as we approached Kam- 
schatka, lummes, dovekies, and small tern. About the latitude of 42° we 
saw many whales, but they did not accompany us far. We observed 
driftwood occasionally, but it was not so plentiful as in the preceding 
year. 
On the 2d of July we made the snowy mountains of Kamschatka, 
but did not reach the Bay of Awatska before the evening of the next 
day, when, after experiencing the difficulties which almost always attend 
the entry and egress of the port, we came to an anchor off the town of 
Petrapaulski nearly in the same situation as before. 
We found lying in the inner harbour the Okotsk Packet, a brig of 
200 tons, commanded by a Kussian sub-lieutenant, on the point of 
sailing with the mail for St. Petersburgh, and availed ourselves of the 
favourable opportunity of transmitting despatches and private letters by 
her. I received some official letters which had been too late for the 
ship the preceding year ; but neither in them nor in the Petersburgh 
Gazette, which finds its way occasionally to Kamschatka, was there in- 
telligence to influence our proceedings, and we consequently began to 
refit the ship for her northern cruize. While this duty was in progress, 
we were also employed sounding and surveying the capacious bay and 
the harbours of Tareinski, Eakovya, and Petrapaulski, the plans of 
those places which had been constructed by Captain King being by no 
means complete. 
Before the ship was at an anchor we received from the governor. 
Captain Stanitski, a very acceptable present of some new potatoes, fresh 
butter, curds, and spring water — a mark of attention and politeness 
for which we were very thankful. On landing I had the pleasure to 
find all the colony in good health, but a little chagrined to learn the 
ship was not one of the periodical vessels from St. Petersburgh, As 
these vessels bring out every kind of supply for the inhabitants, they 
