A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
SIBERIA, §c. 
CHAP. I. 
DEPARTURE FROM THE BAY OF AWATSCHA FOR THE 
ISLAND OF UNALASCHKA. - DESCRIPTION OF THE 
BAY OF BO BROW I A.—REMARKS ON THE ALEUTIANS* 
A Favourable gate springing up oil llie 29th of May, we stood 
out of the bay Awatscha in a south-easterly direction. On 
the 10th we discovered a plank floating on the sea, that appeared 
to have been torn from some vessel. Agreeable to our instruc- 
tions* we should have steered along the chain of Aleutian 
islands towards America, and taken a map of this coast; bufc 
a thick mist coming on immediately after our departure 
out of the bay, it was unanimously resolved not to lose our 
time in a minute survey of every island, but to keep in close 
to the south side of those that were less obscure, and bend our 
course directly to America. 
On the' 10th we were surrounded by a great quantity of 
floating logs of wood and sea-wort. Many sorts of marine birds 
in great abundance kept hovering around us, and one of them, 
of the duck species, even lit on our vessel. We were now in 
north latitude 50° 39', and longitude 109° 04' from Greenwich, 
not more than 180 Italian miles distant from the island of 
Atta. We usually calculated by Italian miles, 00 of which 
go to a degree. 
Our people on setting out were all tolerably recovered from 
the scurvy, with which they had been generally afflicted during 
the winter, but now they felt an increasing debility as they 
advanced farther into the open sea. The want of proper diet 
likewise contributed to renew the disease which had been 
completely removed. Salt meat was almost our only food, 
having been unable to lay in any stock of fresh provisions 
at Kamtschatka, where all sorts of animals, both tan\e and 
