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of him, and his having often invited him to become his 1779. 
gueft, had been the occafion of others fallowing his exam- i Se P tember ; 
pie; belides which, he had been the means of getting his 
penfton increafed to one hundred roubles a year; which 
' is the common pay of an Enlign in all parts of the Em- 
prefs’s dominions, except in this province, where the pay 
of all the officers is double. Major Behm told us, that he 
had obtained permiffion to take him to Okotzk, which was 
to be the place of his relidence in future; but that he 
fhould leave him behind for the prefent, on an idea, that 
he might, on our return to the bay, be ufeful to us as an 
interpreter. 
Having given orders to the Fir ft Lieutenants of both 
Blips, to let the rigging have fuch a repair as the fupply of 
ftores, we had lately received, would permit, w r e fet out on 
our hunting party, under the direction of the corporal of 
the Kamtfchadales, intending, before w T e began to look for 
our game, to proceed ftraight to the head of Behm’s Har¬ 
bour. It is an inlet on the Weft ftde of the bay (wdiich we 
had named after that officer, from its being a favourite 
place of his, and having been Purveyed by himfelf), and 
is called by the natives Tareinfka. 
In our way toward this harbour, we met the Toion of Saint 
Peter and Saint Paul, in a canoe, with his wife and two 
children, and another Kamtfchadale. He had killed two 
feals upon a round illand, that lies in the entrance of the 
harbour, with which, and a great quantity of berries that 
he had gathered, he was returning home. As the wind had 
veered to the South Weft, we now changed our route* by 
his advice ; and, inftead of going.up the harbour, directed 
our courfe to the Northward, toward a'pool of Water that 
lies near the mouth of the river Paratounca, and which was 
a known 
