ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND TSCHUKLL £1 
shores. In the interior shore of the bay, we found in the cleft 
of a mountain, snow or ice, so high as almost to reach above 
the tops of the trees. 
In the morning of the 13th, we were perfectly becalmed. 
Delarow now seeing it impossible for us to run into Kenaiskish 
Bay, left us, and rowed with his treble-seated baidar to-Cape 
St. Elizabeth. At noon, we found ourselves in 59° 17' latitude, 
and 209^ 26' longitude, Nuka bay being then nine miles distant 
from us north-north-west. 
To the 16 th, we were carried backward and forward with a 
gentle wind, or an entire calm, by the tide, along the shore of 
America; after which a southern gale sprung up, and ena¬ 
bled us to direct our course to Schugatskish Bay, called by the 
English Prince William’s Strait. The wind in the mean time 
veered to the south-west, and afterwards to direct west. 
On the I7th towards noon, we made up to the island of 
Tschukli, called Montague by Captain Cook, the southern 
point of which was then about two miles and a half from 
us. After passing that point, we turned to the north, and 
ran along the eastern side of Tschukli. The island is moun¬ 
tainous, and occasionally woody. Opposite to the middle of 
its eastern shore, we saw at a distance of two miles, live 
rocks or small islets, in a line one behind the other. Close 
by .these rocks, we were perfectly becalmed, in a depth of 
45 fathoms water, and a bottom full of gravel and shells. 
On the 18th, we bore with a south-east wind to the north, 
along the island of Tschukli. 
On the 19 th, we found ourselves in 6° 2' latitude, and 
214° 9" longitude, at which time the north-western point of 
Tschukli, was ten miles and a half distant from us to the 
north-west; and the projecting rocks at the entrance of 
Schugatskish Bay, three miles and a half to the north-east. 
The latter are the abode of sea-lions in abundance. 
In the afternoon, we were visited here by two Americans, 
who, in like manner, made a stop at some distance, and ex¬ 
tending their arms, cried Cali! call! No persuasions of our 
interpreters could induce them to do more than come along our 
ship’s side. We. gave them some glass beads, with which they 
immediately departed, promising to return with more of their 
companions. 
Towards evening we ran into the mouth of the bay Nuts- 
chek, lying to the right at the entrance of Schugatskish Bay, 
opposite to the northern point of Tschukli. We cast anchor 
immediately at the entrance seven fathoms deep, in a sandy 
bottom, at three cables’ distance from the shore, opposite to a 
spring gushing out from the cleft of a rock, from whence we 
