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men were left here by accident, and, 
overcoming all the difficulties they were 
exposed to, by their ingenuity, were next 
summer found in good health. In 1743^ 
four Russians were left here, and were 
not relieved till 1749, when three of the 
number were found alive, who had ex¬ 
hausted, as Pennant observes, all the in¬ 
genious contrivances related of Robinson 
Crusoe. 
It is now time to continue the account 
of the remainder of our voyage, together 
with the whale-fishing, the great object 
for which voyages are made to this coun¬ 
try. 
Having made fast to an Iceberg on the 
13th, as before remarked, near the south¬ 
west promontory of Cross Bay, we con¬ 
tinued in that situation during the 14th, 
making all the necessary preparations for 
the fishing, and on the 15th we sail¬ 
ed about ten leagues from the shore 
in a westerly direction, making about 
