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A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1803* b, 5, and 6; Performed 
^ by Order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, 
in the ship Neva, by Urey Lisiansky [ XurV 'f Fe"b©rt>o\<JK \ 
Captain in the Russian Navy, and Knight of the Orders of St. George and. 
St. Via dimer London, printed for John Booth and Longman, Hurst, 
Rees, Drive, and Broun by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey (pages 250-258 
and map), copied verbatum from a volume in the Rare Book Room, Library of 
Congress, by W. 0. Wirtz, II, 3 December 1965 . 
October, 180 5 
15th. The light airs continued till the 15th, When they were succeeded 
by a moderate breeze, but still from the westward. At ten I took some lunar 
distances, and found the longitude at noon to be 173° 23 f W, and the latitude 
26 ° 43 ! north. 
Though we had been for some time past visited by various birds and 
fish, we had never witnessed so great a number as on this day. The ship 
was surrounded by porpoises, benitas, pilot-fish, tropic birds, frigates 
and ganets. One of the ganets alighted on our jib-boom, and was so tame 
that a sailor by climbing up had nearly caught it. From seeing so immense 
a quantity of birds and fish, my attention was roused, especially as Mr. 
de la Perouse had also observed near this place many signs which he thought 
would lead to a discovery of land. I accordingly desired my people to be 
on the watch, and remained on deck myself the whole of the day. We however 
percj/eved nothing; but at ten o 1 clock in the evening our courage was put to 
a most severe trial. I had given to the lieutenant of the watch my orders 
for the night, and was retiring to my cabin, when the vessel received a 
violent shock. I instantly put the helm a-lee and tacked, but it was to 
