54 
SARYTSCHEW’s TRAVELS. 
consider it more probable for him to have taken the mountains of 
the large island, which are infinitely higher, and more conspicuous, 
for this cape ; for which reason the island is more entitled to the 
name of St. Lawrence, than Clarke. 
With a fair east and north-east wind on the 20th, we got near 
the island of St. Matthew, which the mist concealed from our 
view. In the evening the wind grew stronger, and continued ri¬ 
sing all night, so as to be actually stormy towards morning. 
On the 22d the wind abated ; but the sea running high, we were 
driven to south-west. Till the 26th I waited in vain for a change 
of weather, by which I might draw nigh to the shore of the island ; 
at length our very reduced stock of wood obliged us to turn our 
thoughts to some other resource, and we accordingly resolved on 
steering for the island of Unalascbka. 
On the 27th we stood off the Pribylow’s islands, and the next 
morning w’e passed the southernmost of them, St. George’s 
Island. At 9 o’clock it was 21 miles distant from us to the north 
half-east, our latitude being 55° 57 / and longitude 191° 6'. On 
the morning of the 29th we came in sight of Unala^chka: at 
noon the cape between the place Weselowsk and the mouth of 
the Captain’s-haven, was 38 miles distant from us, to the south¬ 
east 80°; from whence we perceived, that w e had calculated our 
latitude from Lawrence-bay always 46 miles too easterly. 
Tow ards evening we came to an anchor off the eastern side 
of the island of Amaknak. The day following we proceeded as 
far as the village Illuluk, and took up our former station there. 
Here I learnt that our other vessel under the command of Cap¬ 
tain Hal-1 had run into this bay, and after a stay of 13 days lor 
victualling and w atering, had put to sea again. 
Perceiving that half a mile from our anchoring-place to the 
south-west of the island, there was a better station for our vessel 
on the other side of a little island, I accordingly proceeded to 
the spot, and lay at cable’s length between two shores. 
Our lirst concern now, was the providing ourselves with a 
sufficiency of wood, for which purpose we daily collected the 
floating logs from the adjacent parts, and conveyed them to our 
ship in baidars. 
On the 2d of September some Aleutians informed me that 
they discovered a single-masted vessel at sea,,towards the west-* 
tern shore of Captain’s-haven ; but not being able to give me any 
farther satisfactory account, I mounted the summit of the moun¬ 
tain on the islanda Amaknak, w here, through a telescope, I des¬ 
cried a vessel, which, from its equipment, could be no other than 
the newly-built cutter under captain Hall’s command. 1 imme¬ 
diately w ent in a sloop to it, and was welcomed by the whole crew 
with the most heartfelt delight. According to their own account* 
