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A VOYAGE TO 
1779- In company with Major Behm, was Captain Shmaleff, the 
i — — , 7 fecorid in command, and another officer, with the whole 
body of the merchants of the place. They conducted ns 
to the Commander’s houfe, where we were received by his 
lady with great civility, and found tea and other refrefh- 
ments prepared for us. After the firft compliments were 
over, Mr. Webber was defired to acquaint the Major with 
the obje6t of our journey, with our want of naval ftores, 
flour, and frefh proviflons, and other neceffaries for the fliips 
crews; and at the fame time to aflure him, that we were 
fenfible, from what we had already feen of the condition 
of the country about Awatlka Bay, we could not expert 
much affiftance from him in that quarter; that the impof- 
flbility of fending heavy ftores acrofs the peninfula, during 
the prefent feafon of the year, was but too apparent, from 
the difficulties we had met with in our journey; and that, 
long before any material change could take place, we 
lhould be under the neceffity of proceeding on our voyage. 
We were here interrupted by the Commander, who ob- 
ferved, that we did not yet know what they were capable of 
doing; that, at leaft, it was not his bufinefs to think of the 
difficulties of fupplying our wants, but only to learn what 
were the articles we ftood in need of, and the longeft time 
we could allow him, for procuring them. After expreffing 
our fenfe of his obliging difpofttion, we gave him a lift of 
the naval ftores, the number of cattle, and the quantity of 
flour, we were directed to purchafe, and told him, that 
we purpofed recommencing our voyage about the 5th of 
June. 
Our converfation afterward turned upon different fub~ 
je„cts; and it will naturally be fuppofed, that our inquiries 
were principally dire&ed to the obtaining fome information 
refpedting 
