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A VOYAGE TO 
1779. We did not choofe to make any remonftrance on this 
September, till phe arr i V al of Captain ShmalefF. Indeed our 
inability, from the want of language, to enter into any dif- 
cuffion of the bufinefs, made it advifeable to come to this 
determination. However, when the Put-parouchick paid 
us his next vifit, we could not help teftifying our chagrin, 
by receiving him very coolly. 
Wednef. 22. The 22d, being the anniverfary of his Majefty’s corona¬ 
tion, twenty-one guns were fired, and the handfomeft feaft 
our fituation would allow of was prepared, in honour of 
the day. As we were fitting down to dinner, the arrival of 
Captain ShmalefF was announced. This was a moft agree¬ 
able furprize; in the firft place, becaufe he arrived fo op¬ 
portunely to partake of the good fare and feftivity of the 
occafion; and, in the next, becaufe in our laft accounts of 
him, we were given to underhand, that the effects of a fe- 
vere illnefs had made him unequal to the journey. We 
were glad to find this had been merely an excufe; that, in 
fa£t, he was afhamed of coming empty-handed, knowing 
we muft be in great want of tea, fugar, Z§c. &c .; and that 
therefore he had deferred his fetting out, in daily expecta¬ 
tion of the floop from Okotzk; but having no tidings of 
her, and dreading left we fhould fail, without his having 
paid us a vifit, he was determined to fet out, though with 
nothing better to prefent to us, than apologies for the po¬ 
verty of Bolcheretfk. At the fame time he acquainted us, 
that our not having received the fixteen head of black 
cattle, we had defired might be fent down, was owing to 
the very heavy rains at Verchnei, which had prevented 
their fetting out. We made the beft anfwer we were able, 
to fo much politenefs and generofity; and the next day, 
on coming on board the Refolution, he was faluted with 
eleven 
