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CHAP, doubt, they soon discovered the cask. They knocked off the hoops with 
a large stone, and then tasted the contents, which they intimated were 
August, very nauseous. The thieves then packed up the hoops, and carried them 
over the hills to another part of the country. 
We patiently heard the whole of this circumstantial account, which 
we had afterwards great reason to believe was an invention of their 
own, and that they had some of the flour secreted in their tents, which, 
no doubt, was the reason of their dislike to our approaching them. 
In the forenoon one of our seamen found a piece of board upon Cha- 
misso Island, upon which was written, in Eussian characters, “ Eurick, 
July 28th, 1816,” and underneath it “Blaganome erinoy, 1820.” The 
former was of course cut by Kotzebue when he visited the islands ; 
and the latter, I suppose, by Captain Von Basilief SchismarefF, his 
lieutenant, who paid this island a second visit in 1820. 
Upon the low point of this island there was another party of 
Esquimaux, who differed in several particulars from those upon the 
peninsula. 1 was about to pay them a visit, but early in the morning 
our peninsular friends came off to say they were going away ; and as I 
wished to see a little more of them before they left us, I deferred going 
there until the next day, by which I lost the opportunity of seeing 
those upon Chamisso, as they decamped in the evening unobserved. 
They were, however, visited by several of the officers. Like the party on 
the peninsula, they were on their return to winter-quarters, with large 
heaps of dried fish, seals’ flesh, oil, skins, and all the necessary appur- 
tenances to an Esquimaux residence. They had four tents and several 
baidars, which were turned over upon their nets and fishing-tackle 
for protection. In one of their tool-chests was found a part of an 
elephant’s tooth, of the same species as those which were afterwards 
collected in Escholtz Bay. They had the same aversion to our officers 
approaching their habitations as the party before described on the 
peninsula, and in all probability it proceeded from the same cause, as 
Mr. Osmer detected a young girl eating some of our flour mixed up 
with oil and berries. On seeing him she ran hastily into her tent, and m 
so doing spilt some of the mixture, which led to the discovery. 
The women of this party differed from the females we had hitherto 
