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Cook had lain with his vessels, we wished to have visited tire 
spot, and had no sooner commenced our excursion, than wo 
discovered our ship to be under sail, and were obliged to re¬ 
linquish our design. The wind and weather which had been so 
favourable, as to induce Captain Hall to weigh anchor in our ab¬ 
sence, was very soon succeeded by a calm ; but by the help of 
a brisk gale which sprung up towards evening, we managed to 
get out Of the bay by the strait at which we entered. From 
IJnaJaschka we took with us two male Aleutians and one 
female. One of the former spoke very good Russian, and 
both had been already on all the islands east of Unalasehka, 
and knew their names. At midnight a thick mist arose, which 
lasted till seven in the morning, when the island Atrutan, with 
its smoking crater, and the circumjacent islets, gradually opened 
to view. At ten o’clock, we discovered the conical summits 
of the island of Unimak, one of which, called Agagedan, is like¬ 
wise volcanic, and at that time emitted a thick smoke. The 
extreme point of another, called Chagyan, appeared to have 
sunk in. 
In the afternoon, our view was intercepted by a thick mist. 
Notwithstanding, we pursued our course towards the island of 
Sannach, and found the depth at midnight to be 60 fathom, 
and the bottom muddy; but farther on the depth decreased, 
and the ground became alternately stony and sandy, intermingled 
with muscles. About five in the. morning, we-descried through 
the mist, in a straight line- before our vessel, several masses of 
rock, projecting from the water, which we instantly evaded, 
arid bent our course towards Sannach, to the left of which we 
perceived the island of Akaturn, and a part of Unimak; lying op¬ 
posite to the Isanoskish strait. At the distance of two miles 
from Sannach, we perceived on its north-western side a ridge 
of mountains, rising one above another, blit, generally speak¬ 
ing, the shore of the whole island appeared to be rather level. 
Its length w as about twelve miles. On the west side, reefs of 
rocks run for six miles into the sea, occasionally projecting, 
and containing, according to the account of the Aleutians, 
many otters. At no great distance from Sannach, lie three 
other small and level islands. Taking a north-eastern direction 
from thence, wq proceeded straight to the Schumagin islands, 
and in our way thither passed a number of islands, of which 
eight on our left hand had names. The first, twelve miles 
north-north-east of Sannach, was Nainmak. To the south¬ 
east of this lie a quantity of napieless islands, that are 
little more than masses of earth projecting out of the 
water. The second is called Animak, or the Rein-deer island, 
Rom the number of wild rein-deer with which it is stocked. 
