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HixMKOF, godfon to the former, of 
about thirty. They arrived at this 
city in the beginning of the year 
1750; and the rlrfl converfation I 
had with them, was on the 8th of 
January. They brought with them 
feveral curious pieces of their w T ork- 
manfhip, and fome productions of 
the defert Ifland on which they 
had fo long refided, as prefents for 
Count Schuwalow, of which 
things I {hall give fome account in 
the fequel . I examined them with 
all the circumfpeclion and care I 
was mailer of; propofing to them 
fuch queftions as I thought rie- 
ceffary to fatisfy me of the truth 
of this relation. The reader there- 
fore may fafely believe that, after 
having taken fuch precautions, no 
room 
