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SARYTSCHEw’s TRAVELS. 
CHAP. V. 
DEPARTURE FROM AWATSCHA BAY TO BEHRING^ 
ISLAND, AND FROM THENCE TO THE NORTH SIDE OF 
THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS AS FAR AS THE ISLAND TA- 
NAGA.-OCCURRENCES DURING OUR ANCHORAGE.—- 
VOYAGE BY THE AN DREGENOW ISLANDS TO UN ALA SlI- 
KA, AND ARRIVAL IN THE CAPTAIN ? S HAVEN. 
OlS the 3 6th of May, 1791, we weighed anchor, and were 
on the point of leaving Awatscha bay; but had scarcely 
reached the light-house, when a contrary wind arose and obliged 
us to return and lie at anchor till the 19 th, when, with a fair 
wind, west-south-west, we got into sea. Supposing that the 
cutter which was building at Kamtschatka must be ready, we 
took a straight direction up the river for the purpose of meeting 
with it. At the same time, having given Captain Hall intelli¬ 
gence of our intended route, we concerted, that if he put to 
sea before our arrival, he was to wait for us at the northern point 
of Behring’s Island till the 29 th of May. 
On the 24th, in the morning, we descried the Kronozkish 
promontory, and a lofty crater, situated to the west of it. Our 
latitude was, at noon, 54° 33'; our longitude 162® 20'; the 
Kronozkish crater being 63° 30', to the north-west, fifty miles 
distant from us. 
Contrary winds not permitting us to approach the mouth of 
the river Kamtschatka, we stood out for Behring’s Island, as 
the destined rendezvous for our vessels. 
We came in sight of this island on the 27th, in the after¬ 
noon, and approaching its south-western side towards evening, 
the shore of which consists of lofty mountains, we stood in to 
the north-west, having always a west-south-west wind, which 
blew so fresh towards night that we could scarcely double a 
lofty rock that was separated from land. At midnight the 
island appealed sufficiently near for us to reach it with a stone’s 
throw. 
On the morning of the 28th, we sailed round the northern 
level shore of the island, and then from its north-eastern to 
the south-eastern side. At noon we estimated the latitude at 
56° 14', and the longitude at 166° 22'; being about three miles 
