2S8 
VOYAGE TO THE 
CHAP. The next day we had the satisfaction of seeing the high mountains of 
Kamschatka, which at a distance are the best guides to the port of 
.June, Awatska. I’he eastern mountain, situated twenty-five miles from 
Petrapaulski, is 7'375 feet high by my trigonometrical measurement ; 
another, which is the highest, situated N. 5° E. from the same place, and 
a little to the northward of a short range upon which there is a volcano 
in constant action, is 11-500 feet. At eight o’clock we distinguished 
Cape Gavarea, which with Chepoonski Noss forms a deep bay in which 
the harbour of Petrapaulski is situated, and the same evening we were 
becalmed within six miles of our port. Nothing could surpass the 
serenity of the evening or the magnificence of the mountains capped 
with perennial snows, rising in majestic array above each other. The 
volcano emitted smoke at intervals, and from a sprinkling of black dots 
on the snow to leeward of the crater we concluded there had been a 
recent eruption. 
At two o’clock the following afternoon we anchored off the town 
of Petrapaulski, and found lying in the inner harbour his imperial ma- 
jesty’s ship Modeste, commanded by Baron Wrangel, an enterprising 
officer, well known to the world as the commander of a hazardous ex- 
pedition on sledges over the ice to the northward of Schelatskoi Noss. 
I found despatches awaiting my arrival, communicating the return 
of the expedition under Captain Parry, and desiring me to cancel that 
part of my instructions which related to him. The officers on landings 
at the little town of Petrapaulski, met with a very polite reception 
from the governor, Stanitski, a captain in the Kussian navy, who, 
during our short stay in port, laid us under many obligations for 
articles of the most acceptable kind to seamen after a long voyage I 
regretted extremely at this time that confinement to my cabin pre- 
vented my having the pleasure of making either his acquaintance or 
that of the pastor of Paratounka, of whose ancestor such honourable 
mention has been made in the voyages of Captain Cook, a pleasure 
which was reserved for the following year. The worthy pastor, iw 
strict compliance with the injunctions of his grandfather, that he 
should send a calf to the captain of every English man of war that 
might arrive in the port, presented me with one of his own rearing, 
