sarytschew’s travels* 
5 £ * 
baidars, to the bay of Metschigman, in the vicinity of which 
was Imlerat’s settlement. He took with him Dr. Merk, his 
assistant Meir, the boatswain Batakow, the first surgeon Leh¬ 
mann, the interpreter Daukin, and threq hunters, leaving me 
orders to survey the bay of Anadyr, to proceed from thence 
to Unalaschka, and winter there; in the spring to return to 
Kamtschatka; and after having examined the sea between the 
Kurilian islands, to leave the vessel in the harbour of Petropau- 
lousk, and go with the men to Ochotsk. 
CHAP. VIII. 
DEPARTURE FROM THE BAY OF ST» LAWRENCE TO UNA¬ 
LASCHKA. -— ARRIVAL AT CAPTAIN ? S BAY. — IM¬ 
POSING A TRIBUTE ON THE ISLANDERS.— ARRIVAL OF 
THE TOJA OF THE ISLAND ATCHA, AND THE ALEUTIANS 
OF THE ANDREJANOW ISLAND.-SEA-LION CHACE.— 
SCURVY AMONG THE MEN. 
Jl HE departure of Captain Billings was immediately suc¬ 
ceeded by my own. 1 weighed anchor the next day, even in a 
perfect calm, and was towed off between the narrow cape and 
the exterior sandbank. The depth of this place amounted to 
fathoms. On going round the cape, a west wind arose, with 
which we managed to get under sail. The depth increased to 
5 fathoms, and the bottom was sandy. After passing the shaL 
Iqws we lay-to for a time. 
We did not observe any tide while we lay at anchor. 
On going again under sail we ran straight through the bay of 
St Lawrence. The depth in the centre was 25 fathoms in a 
sandy bottom. The breadth of the mouth, from the north-east 
to the south-western cape, amounts to 11 miles. On the shore 
of this latter we discovered, at the foot of the mountains, and 
in the vicinity of the brooks, the habitations of stationary Tschuk- 
schens in four different places. 
Two miles further we stood round the rocky mass, forming the 
south-eastern point of the promontory at the mouth of the bay, 
and kept along the shore first 8f miles to the west, and afterwards 
4j miles to west-south-west. The depth amounted to 15, 13, 
and 10 fathoms, with a gravelly and sandy bottom. The mourn 
tains grew more level, and were intersected by various clefts. 
The coast that immediately bounded the water was an entire flat, 
At a distance of five miles a-head of us we discovered the point 
of a shore, on which was a large settlement of the Tschukschens, 
From this point commences the bay of Metschigmena, beyond 
which the shore bends to south-south-east, running onward into 
