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usually reside during the autumn, for the purpose of catching 
Sea-bears, which run into the bay at that season. 
On the following day we left this place, and anchored agaiti 
off the village Akmaga, four miles from the bay Makuschinsk. 
This village lies near the shore, in the vicinity of a brook which 
flows out of a lake, and has seven male inhabitants. Having 
passed the night here, we proceeded onward, and passed two 
bays which penetrated three miles into the island to south-east. 
They appeared unsheltered, and not well adapted for an anchor¬ 
ing-place, on which account I thought it needless to enter therm 
A range of high rocks extend themselves for about half a mile to 
south-west, beyond which the shore winds to south-east and south 
towards a bay, called by the Aluetians Alukoo, and by the 
Russians Makrowsk; its entrance is about a mile and a half 
wide, defended on each side by steep rocks, and penetrating 
towards the east about three miles and three quarters, and theri 
winds to the south, where, although it is sheltered from the 
winds on one side, is still an insecure station from the rough 
rocks and numerous cliffs on its shore. Two miles and a half 
beyond the promontory is another bay to the south, called 
Koshiga, open towards the west a mile and a half long, and at 
the mouth three quarters of a mile broad; near which, on the 
right shore, is an inconsiderable island facing the ocean; a mile 
beyond, a high and slender rock emerges from the water, 
tinder whose surface lie concealed innumerable shelves. The 
depth between the rock and the island is 35 fathoms, with at 
gravelly bottom; at the mouth of the bay the water is only 
tw 7 elve fathoms deep, and shallows to seven farther on, with a 
bottom of fine sand, which, judging from the appearance of the 
shore, most probably covers the rocks at no great distance* 
from hence, and occasioned the wrecking of Shebeshow’s ship 
in 1790, who, having anchored in the bay to water, in his way 
from the island Badjak, was torn from his anchorage, and dashed 
against the shore. 
On the inner shore of the bay lies the village Koshiga, con^ 
sisting of three jurts, inhabited by thirty-two Aleutians, and two 
Russian hunters, left in the former year from a ship belonging to' 
Shebeshow, on the western promontory of the island, while- 
the ship itself wintered in the island discovered by the steersman 
Pribylow. 
Among the Aleutians who accompanied me from Akmagan 
was a Shaman, who undertook the restoration of a sick woman 
at the request of her relations. The Shaman and some of his coun¬ 
try people seated themselves in a circle round the sick woman, and 
commenced a Shaman’s hymn, accompanied by the drum ; to 
this, after a short time, followed a profound silence, occasioned^. 
