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killed the governor, and some of his people, and took 
the rest prisoners. 
The next morning they entered Bolsao sword in 
hand, meeting with very faint resistance. They next 
attacked Kamtschatka, which they took without 
opposition, and immediately seized the ships in the 
harbour, arrested the secretary of the senate, seized 
the effects of two hundred inhabitants, and then 
went down to the harbour, where they made choice 
of three of the strongest vessels, and dismasted the 
rest. 
Having cleared his ships from the ice, he embarked 
with every thing necessary, on the 12th of May, 
1771, having on board sixty-seven persons ; viz. eight 
officers, eight married women, a young woman called 
the princess, and fifty of the crew. In this manner 
he left Kamtschatka, and sailing south-east, came, 
after a variety of adventures, to the western coast of 
America, under the sixtieth degree of latitude, but 
was not able to land on account of the violence of 
the wind. Sailing south-east and south-west, he 
arrived at an island, called by the Russians Urum-sir, 
situated under 53°. 45'. latitude. 
This, according to the account of the baron, is an 
American island, and he was received with friendship 
by the natives, wRich induced him to remain there 
some days. After refreshing himself and his men 
with the produce of the island, he set sail again on 
the 27th of June, and steered south-west, suffering 
much from the inconstancy of the winds and the want 
