SURVEY OF IKStflAKTAK BAY. 6® 
and kneels on a grass mat in the midst. When the song com¬ 
mences, she begins to move, and gradually rises with her hands 
both confined in her girdle; she then takes the arrow from her 
back, and, raising herself on her toes, in this attitude dances, 
without leaving the spot, at the same time suiting the movements 
of her head, and those of the arrow she holds in her hand, to 
the sound of the drum. 
On the 17th the weather being hue and sun bright, I com¬ 
menced my observations from the promontory of the place, and 
found our latitude 53° 51'. A small distance from the village I 
discovered a warm spring issuing from a cleft in a rock, which 
is, however, ouly visible at low water, being at other times 
wholly covered by tbe stream. 
On the 18th the weather was calm enough for me to pursue 
my course; previous to which I took a survey of Makuschinsk. 
The shore leading to it extends in rocky projections towards 
south-east 60 o/ ; the entrance of the bay is about 2f miles 
wide, lying to tbe north-east 5o°. At a distance of about 
220 fathoms from the northern side of the bay towards the 
south-west are two high projecting rocks; 60 feet from the 
rocks the water was not more than seven fathoms, although in 
the middle it was so deep that our lead never once reached the 
bottom. The whole bay is nine miles and a half in length. 
At noon we were off the left shore, near Ikschaktak’s bay, in 
Utt. 53° 46'. In the afternoon we ran in and found the opposite 
shore, five miles distant from the mouth, divided by a neck of land 
into two parts, one called Udamak and the other Maganach.— 
The first extends to south-east four miles and a half, having-in 
its centre two small islands. On the left hand, the space be¬ 
tween the shore and the nearest island is about the third part of a. 
verst in the centre. The w 7 ater is 32 fathoms deep, with a 
gravelly bottom : the roads are about a verst in width, and so 
deep that a line of fifty fathoms could not reach the bottom. 
The other half, or Maganach bay, extends itself two miles and 
a half towards the south ; it is very deep at the entrance, but 
three quarters of a mile farther shallows to fifty fathoms, and 
continues to become more shallow as you approach the oppo¬ 
site shore. A mile and a quarter from the island, both the 
shores approach each other, and form a road about half a verst 
in breadth, which leads to an oval basin, a mile in diameter.— 
This basin also receives a stream that descends from the mount 
tains, in the centre it is seven fathoms deep, and at the mouth 
25, with a muddy bottom. We took up our abode for the 
night on the first island, where we found a hut constructed oi 
whales’ bones, in which the Aleutians, front Makuschinsk^ 
