A WHALE THROWN ON SHORE. 
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pose six or seven shooters were daily sent out after wild fowl. 
On lucky days they usually brought from three to six birds of 
different sorts, as urilas, sea-ducks, mews, wild-geese, and oc¬ 
casionally a woodcock, or some other land-bird. 
On the 2d and 3d of January the weather was hazy but 
calm. Some Aleutians then went again to fish, and brought 
us twelve stock-fish and two roaches, each of which weighed 
two pounds and a half. In the middle of January our pa¬ 
tients with the scurvy were increased to the number of twenty- 
three. 
The high wind which blew from the 19th to the 25th drove 
a whale to the western shore of Captain's-bay, and after¬ 
wards threw it on the island of Uknadok. The islanders gave 
us information of it, enquiring, at the same time, whether we 
were not in want of oil. We ordered twelve puds for burn¬ 
ing in our lamps. Although the fish was only eighteen feet 
long, it proved extremely serviceable to the Aleutians in their 
approaching scarcity, and was shared among all the inhabitants 
of the surrounding villages. 
On the 8th of February, we had still twenty-three sick pf 
the scurvy, and two dead. 
CHAP. IX. 
DEPARTURE FOR THE NORTHERN SIDE OF UNALASCHKA, 
-ARRIVAL AT THE VILLAGE OF MAKUSCHINSK.—G AMES 
OF THE ISLANDERS.-BAYS ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF 
THE ISLAND. — CORE OF A SlCli WOMAN BY A SHAMAN.—* 
ATROJA ACTING AS SHAMAN.—RETURN TO THE VESSEL® 
According to the information of some Aleutians, there 
were some beautiful bays on the western side of tlnalaschka, 
which, as they had hitherto been unnoticed by any one, I took 
upon myself to survey and describe. 1 accordingly setoff on the 
3 3th of February, in a treble-seated baidar, attended by a few 
islanders in single-seated ones. I had but one sailor with me, 
and the troja of Illuiuk, baptized by the name of Elisei Vupyschew, 
W'ho spoke tolerably good Russian, and served as interpreter. I 
was obliged after the manner of my companions to draw on an 
upper garment of fishes' entrails, to put a wooden hat on my 
head, and take the oar in my hand. My compass was fastened 
before me in a direction that 1 could use it at pleasure; and the 
sailor who was in a small baidar, carried the lead for sounding 
as I desired. 
As goon as we were clear of the western shore of Captain’s- 
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