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where the boat was stationed ; but expressed chap. 
visible uneasiness, and began to call loudly to 
their companions on shore, as we stretched out 
from the land towards the Taurida. We con- 
ducted them, however, upon deck ; when a new 
dilemma occurred ; for Captain Castle, con- 
ceiving that he had been insulted by these men, 
insisted upon fighting with their Chief. It was 
with difficulty we could prevent this from being 
noticed by the party who had ventured with 
us ; but getting them all at last into the cabin, 
and having appeased our worthy Captain, by 
pointing out the danger to which he would 
expose others of our countrymen, in offending 
the natives of a coast frequented at that time 
by our ships for wood and water, he consented 
to overlook the indignity. After giving them 
a dram each, with a little gunpowder, some 
Constantinople pipes, tobacco, and coffee, they 
were so gratified, that we might perhaps have 
ventured with them even to Koynucky, whither 
they offered to escort us. We contented our- 
selves, however, in gaining their permission to 
botanize unmolested around the Gulph; and, for 
that purpose, accompanied them back to their 
companions. 
We landed upon the western side of the bay, 
near to the place laid down in the chart as the 
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