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mountains: beyond this, the shore of the bay for three miles 
is covered with cliffs, and terminates with projecting rocks. 
On the 10th, I concluded iny sketch of the Beaver-bay, and 
returned to the Slawa Rossu, which I found ready for sea, and 
only waiting a favourable wind. 
While we lay at anchor, we were supplied by our Aleutians 
with a sufficiency of stock-fish and roaches for the whole crew. 
The hunters whom we had sent to the island Kekalga, brought 
us also a variety of sea-fowl, and a particular sort of black¬ 
headed geese, which Dr. Merk called Canadian. On one of 
the cliffs which rises out of the water, at a small distance from 
land, they likewise killed a sea-lion : a creature so called, as it 
seems, from the colour of their hair, and \a sort of bushy mane 
on the necks of the males, which are nearly three feet long > 
mid at the breast proportionably stout, but from thence to the 
tail becoming gradually smaller and more pointed. The head 
is round and bearded ; and the nostrils extend very much when 
they are irritated. They are found in troops on the islands of 
the Pacific Ocean, and have frequent contests together, about 
their dens and females. They live on fish and amphibious 
animals. The people of Kamtschatka, who shoot them with 
arrows when they are asleep, cure their flesh and fat for food, 
and their skins either for clothing or covering their snow- 
shoes. 
Jn the mean time, our priest baptized ninety-two islanders at 
their own request; but not understanding their language, he 
could not properly instruct them in their new religion, into 
which they were initiated, by the simple ceremony of the sar 
Cjrament. 
For a whole week, we were detained by nothing but con 
Irary winds. 
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DEPARTURE FROM UNALASCHSA FOR KADJAK. — DE¬ 
SCRIPTION OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS.-THE ISLAND 
OF KADJAK, AND ITS INHABITANTS. 
On the 17th of June, I accompanied Captain Billings to 
the village Utschujug, on the other side of the Otters-bay, 
where the Russian inhabitants had heated the baths for us. 
They are the only persons having such baths, which they have 
constructed out of subterraneous caves, and lined with walls 
pne brick thick. 
Being informed by the Aleutians, that at no great distance 
Jjeyond this bay we should come to that in which Captain 
