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travelling attire. If he asks for any thing to eat, it is set before 
him, and if he is cold he has a lamp given him ; alter which, 
he begins relating some particulars of his journey, and they on 
their part inform him of what has passed at home during his 
absence; but all this goes forward without the slightest indication 
of curiosity or interest. 
CONCLUSION. 
The reader will perhaps not be unwillingly detained a few 
moments longer at the close of my narrative, to learn the fate 
of my partners in this toilsome expedition. 
The chief of the expedition, Captain Joseph Billings, retired 
on a pension as commodore, in the year 1797 , and now resides 
at Moscow. 
Robert Hall, captain, now rear-admiral and knight, residing 
at Petersburg. 
Christian Behring, captain, a grandson of the famous navi¬ 
gator, from whom Behring’s Strait receives its name, died of a 
consumption in August 1803, in the forty-third year of his age, 
as a pensioned major-general of the fleet. 
Anthony Batakow r , steersman, supposed to be dead. 
Sergei Batakow, steersman, dead. 
Kondratow, second steersman, bis fate totally unknown. 
Aphanassi Bakow, boatswain, is now boatswain with the rank 
of lieutenant, in the service of the fleet at Cronstadt, and has 
obtained the Wladimi order of the fourth class. 
Michael Rohbeck, first-surgeon, is now first-physician of 
the hospital erected some time since at Petersburg, by her 
majesty the empress. 
Surgeon Ailegretti, so honourably mentioned by Mr. Lesseps, 
in his Journey through Siberia, was some years first-surgeon m 
the service of her majesty the empress, and bad married a 
grand-child of the famous Euler, but died in the year 17 gg 9 ' in 
consequence of the bite of a mad dog, in the most melancholy 
condition. 
Lehmann, first surgeon’s assistant, is now living as first sur¬ 
geon of one of the gallies. 
Wassilei YVoloschetiow, second surgeon’s assistant, received a 
post in the government of Woronesch. 
Martin Sauer, secretary, known by his description of this 
Voyage, in his native language the English, is now a broker in 
the Peters burgh exchange. 
Joseph Edwards, mechanic, is an overseer, in the silk and 
cotton manufactory, erected by her majesty the empress, at 
Alexandrousk, not far from Petersburgh. 
