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pofed of Ruffian merchants, to whom fhe 
granted fpeclal privileges, for the carry- 
ing on their trade and navigation in the 
new difcovered parts : (he likewife ho- 
noured the twelve firit members with a 
gold medal, ftruck for that purpofe, which 
they were to wear hung to their necks 
by a blue ribband, as a mark of her high 
favour. 
Farther to promote this end, the Ad- 
miralty-Office at OchotJkGi, on the fea of 
PenJInJk, or of Ochotjkoi, had orders from 
her Majefty to aflift this trading com- 
pany of Kamtfchatka, in the profecntion 
ditron in a fhip of his own, and afterwards fettled 
in Kamtfchatka, The other principal members of 
this trading company were Feed r Nik : fo-- r rf Ribin- 
Jkei, a Merchant of Mofcow; Feodor AfamfsjelFKal- 
k r j(f\ Ivoan Lapix. and Feodor Bureuin } Merchants 
of Wolosod. 
