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supposed that the inhabitants of the other islands came here, 
from time to time, for the purpose of fishing. 
In the night of the 24th the wind veered round to the north, 
and b!ew so strong and contrary a gale that we were obliged to 
haul in all sail; but being only twenty miles off St. Laurence, 
we bore away to the east, and getting round the island lay to 
for the night. 
On the 26th we found ourselves in lat. 63 s * 10'; and longi¬ 
tude 195 c 25', thirty-three miles distant from the north-east 
shore-of St. Laurence; consequently in the spot where Ander¬ 
son's Island is marked on Captain Cook’s map, but we disco¬ 
vered nothing, although the horizon was sufficiently clear. 
On the morning of the 28th we saw the cape on the shore 
of America, called by the English Cape Rodney. At noon 
we calculated our latitude at 64° 1 T, and the longitude at 
193 4 58b Cape Rodney was then twenty-seven miles distant 
from us to the north west 56 Q '; Fledge island twenty- 
six miles to the north-west (>3- c . In the evening We anchored 
eight miles from the American shore, in 14 fathoms water and 
a muddy bottom. 
Mr. Bdlings, Mr. Merk, Boatswain Bakow, and Mr. Wo- 
ronin, the draughtsman, went in two boats on shore, and 
towards evening one^ of them was sent back with the intelli¬ 
gence, that they had found inhabitants, and having met with a 
kind reception from them, they should pass the night on land. 
On the 29th we saw behind the cape a large baidar full of 
Americans coming towards us. They stopped at no great 
distance from us, so that we could distinguish, them without a 
glass. The baidar was occupied by nine men, having at its 
stem an extended bladder hung on a pole, and at the poop two 
red foxes on another pole, which we, of course, regarded as 
friendly signals. They continued, however, some time in their 
position without offering to approach, and with their hands 
raised aloft. I commanded the sailors who were on the deck to 
do the same, as a token that we were unprovided with any 
offensive weapons. 
At length taking courage they came on board; but as they 
did not understand pur interpreters we could have but little con¬ 
versation with them. They had. some red foxes, some vests of 
young reindeer and Alpine hares, wooden bowls, and different 
trilies, made of walrus’ teeth, which they exchanged with ouf 
sailors for coral, pearl-enamel, and buttons, but no tobacco. 
The Alpine hare, Alpinus, is of the size of a marmot, with 
a longish head, a snout like that of a hare, large ears, rounded 
in the form ' of a funnel, a thick body, short legs, the fore- 
