THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
495 
On the ioth, Lediard returned with three Ruffian feamen, 1778. 
or furriers; who, with fome others, redded at Egoochfhac, , oa ° bei '_, 
where they had a dwelling-houfe, fome ftore-houfes, and a Saturday 10. 
Hoop of about thirty tons burthen. One of thefe men was 
either Mailer or Mate of this veffel; another of them wrote 
a very good hand, and underftood figures; and they were 
all three well-behaved intelligent men, and very ready to 
give me all,the information I could defire. But for want of 
an interpreter, we had fome difficulty to underhand each 
other. They appeared to have a thorough knowledge of 
the attempts that had been made by their countrymen to 
navigate the Frozen Ocean, and of the difcoveries which 
had been made from Kamtfchatka, by Beering, Tfcherikoff, 
and Spangberg. But they feemed to know no more of 
Lieutenant Syndo % or Synd, than his name. Nor had they 
the leafl idea what part of the world Mr. Stsehlin’s map re¬ 
ferred to, when it was laid before them. When I pointed 
out Kamtfchatka, and fome other known places, upon that 
map, they afked, whether I had feen the iflands there laid 
down ; and on my anfwering in the negative, one of them 
put his finger upon a part of this map, where a number of 
iflands are reprefented, and faid, that he had cruifed there 
for land, but never could find any. I then laid before them 
my own chart; and found that they were flrangers to every 
part of the American coafl, except what lies oppofite this 
ifland. One of thefe men faid, that he had been with Beer¬ 
ing, in his American voyage; but mull then have been very 
young, for he had not now, at the diftance of thirty-feven 
years, the appearance of being aged. Never was there 
greater refpect paid to the memory of any diftinguifhed 
* See the little that is known of Synd’s voyage, accompanied with a chart, in Mr. 
Code’s Ruffian Difcoveries, p. 300. 
* perfon, 
