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Our adventurers arrived fafe at Arch- 
angel on the twenty-eighth of September, 
1749, having fpent fix years and three 
months in their rueful folhude. 
The moment of their landing was nearly 
proving fatal to the loving and beloved 
wife of Alexis Himkof, who, being 
prefent when the vefTel came into port, 
immediately knew her hufband, and 
ran with fo much eagernefs to his em- 
braces, that fhe flipped into the water, 
a nd very narrowly cicaped being drowned. 
All three on their arrival were ilrong 
and healthy ; but having lived fo long 
without bread, they could not reconcile 
themfelves to the ufe of it, and complained 
that it filled them with wind. Nor could 
they bear any fpirituous liquors, and there- 
fore drank nothing but water. 
Before I conclude, I cannot help fub- 
joining a reneclion of A^r. Verne- 
zobrf, with which he concludes one or 
his 
