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5AIIYTSCHEW*S TRAVELS. 
Glotow wintered here with the merchantman belonging to a 
trading company : in the year 1765, Bragin did the same with 
another ship, and in the year 1770, the steersman Otscheredin. 
In the first expedition to Kamtschatka, Captain Behring dis¬ 
covered this island on his return from America, and called its 
north-eastern cape Cape Hermogenes; Captain Cook called the 
same Cape Greville; and the islands Tugudock and Sitchtu- 
nock, Trinity Islands. 
On the 30th we carried our water-casks on shore, and ex¬ 
changed our foul and stinking water for the fresh and pure liquid 
that flowed in a gentle stream from the mountain. On the oppo¬ 
site shore we erected an astronomical tent, and close by it a com¬ 
mon kitchen. The islanders flocked to us every day, as curious 
and wondering spectators, and particularly admired the extra¬ 
ordinary size of our vessel compared with their barges. They 
offered us nothing for sale, probably from a dread of the Russian 
hunters, who monopolize to themselves all they have to sell. 
The inhabitants of the island of Kadjak, although in the 
neighbourhood of the other Aleutians, are notwithstanding W'idely 
different from the rest of their nation. They are much taller, 
have fat and depressed faces, and a language altogether different. 
Their clothing consists of a single robe of birds’ skins sowed to¬ 
gether, without any decoration, and a little flattened hat of plaited 
roots. They cut off all their hair, except one tuft on the crown, 
which they grease with fat, some likewise strewing it with a red 
powder, and in addition to that with the white flue of birds. 
One of them had pierced the gristle of his nose with a pointed 
bone, four inches long; and another had taken some corals to 
serve as a similar ornament. On particular holidays and festivals, 
they besmear their faces with various colours, marking them with 
lines and divisions of black, white, and red, according to their 
several tastes. Their baidars, or principal canoes, are double 
the size of those of the Aleutians, but much shorter, being com¬ 
monly double-seated, and often only single-seated, with a short 
oar, like a shovel. I have not seen their habitations, as there 
w r ere none in the vicinity of our harbour ; but, according to 
Captain Billings and the doctor’s account, who, on an excursion 
to Sachlidok, saw several of them, they resemble those of the 
Aleutians. The number of inhabitants on Kadjak, and the 
circumjacent islands, Aphognak, Sachlidok, Schujech, Tugidok, 
and Sichtunok, is computed by Delarow at three thousand. 
On the 3d of July, I sat off very early in the morning to 
take the Bay of Laelick. it commences at the haven of the 
Three Fathers, where it is a mile in breadth, and penetrating 
about three miles and a half into the interior of Kadjak, in the 
direction of north and north-west, and afterwards bending to 
