16 SARYTSCHEWS TRAVELS. 
projecting out of the water. It is said to be the abode of 
sea-lions. 
On the 25th we touched at the seven Eudokejusch islands: 
the three first of which are called Abeksinoi, Samidin, and Age- 
jeeh; and the four last, which are much smaller, have no name. 
They are all hills, very contiguous to each other, and surrounded 
with reefs of rocks, both visible and invisible. While in the 
strait between these islands, our course was arrested by a per¬ 
fect calm. We found ourselves in latitude 56 G 10', and lon¬ 
gitude 202° 51', having 50 fathoms depth of water, and a 
white gravelly bottom. 
In the afternoon several Americans came in their double and 
treble-seated baidars, on board our ship, accompanied by a 
Russian hunter, who, as he informed us, was sent with three 
islanders from Shebebow, a village in Kadjak, to catch sea-lions 
and fowls. 
One of these Kadjakers, who attended this hunter, and appeared 
to be about forty years of age, differed altogether from the others, 
having the appearance of a female, with his nose punctured, and 
lings of pearl-enamel in his ears. We learnt from the hunter 
that this man supplied the place of a wife to one of the islanders, 
and performed all the offices belonging to the female sex. 
The calm continuing, our ship was barely carried onward by 
the tide through the strait. In the mean time Mr. Billings and 
the doctor went on shore, and shot some marine birds,which are 
very numerous on these uninhabited islands, because they are 
seldom or never disturbed by the inhabitants of the other islands. 
In the evening a gale sprung to the south-east, but we could not 
profit by it, because two of our hunters were not yet returned 
from the chase. On their arrival the next morning, they said 
that, from having extended their walk too far on the preceding 
evening, they hud been obliged to sleep in the open air. We 
now unfurled our sails and steered for Kadjak. At noon we 
found ourselves in latitude 56° 20', and longitude 203° 2l' r 
Soon after we descried, at a distance of 2 G miles towards the 
south-east, in latitude 56°, the flat island of Elkamok, 
On the 27th we got sight of Kadjak. The wind, which had 
been favourable for two d 4 ys, changed its quarter ; but notwith¬ 
standing we were enabled, by a gentle north breeze, gradually to 
approach the islands of Tugudock and Sitchinock, lying on the 
south-western point of Kadjak. During the whole night the 
wales swam around our ship, and perpetually occasioned, by their 
violent lashing of the waves, a report very similar to that from the 
discharge of a cannon. 
On the 28th, several islanders came in their double-seated 
baidars our ship, without betraying any symptoms of fear. 
