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SARYTSCHEW’S TRAVELS. 
Russians, would have made them masters of the Eastern Ocean, 
and secured to them an extensive trade in those seas. 
Having sent our people forward with the baidar, I staid two 
days longer with Mr. Fomin, in order to accompany him on rein¬ 
deer to the Ulkan, where he arrived after a journey of 30 versts 
in six hours, and found a tent erected for our reception. Mr. 
Fomin did me the kindness of stopping with me two days, at the 
end of which he set off again for the Alduma. 
The interval of waiting for our commander, was employed by 
the men in the pursuit of sea-lions near the promontory of Enkan, 
two of which they succeeded in shooting, after two days chace. 
They are commonly shot as they lie extended on the rock, and 
at so short a distance, that they may be hit on the crown or tem¬ 
ples, the only two parts in which they are to be mortally wound¬ 
ed. On receiving a wound in any other place, they spring into 
the water, and sink to the bottom the instant they die. The 
flesh of these two animals, which weighed nearly 80 poods, was 
a sufficient load for my whole baidar; the men ate of it with 
much avidity, and esteemed it a great luxury, although I did not 
find it equally delicious. The paws, marrow, and kidnies, in¬ 
deed, were free from any offensive smell, and had a tolerable 
flavour. 
In consequence of a counter order from Captain Billings, not 
to wait for him here, but to return to Ochotsk, I set off from 
this place on the 27th of June. In my way thither I passed the 
mouth of the river Ulga, and entered the Urak. The breadth 
of this river is 70 fathoms at its mouth; its depth, at the fall of 
the water, five or six feet, and higher up, two feet, or a foot 
and a half. Three years ago the Urak fell into the sea farther 
towards the west; but the small neck of laud, which separated 
it from the sea, being washed away by a flood, it forsook its 
former mouth, and took this new course. 
The bank of the Urak is inhabited by some Jakuts, who have 
removed from Jakutsk. The merchant Iclielechow has also 
erected some barracks here, and a dock-yard, in which lie built 
three vessels. 
On the 7th of July, we arrived at the mouth of the Ochota, 
where we were received by almost all the inhabitants of the city. 
Our commander, and the rest of the expedition, were at 
Ochotsk. I presented him with my journal and map of my late 
excursion, and received the command of the ship Slawa Rossii 
(the Fame of Russia) which was already launched and equipped. 
The length of its-deck was 86 feet 6 inches; its depth, 9 test 
6 inches; and its breadth, twenty feet eight inches. The sec aid 
vessel, which was feet smaller than the former, and received 
die name of the Dobroe Namei'enie, was launched the next 
