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brought with them; and then they made others for them- i 77 g. 
felves, of their canoes and paddles, which they covered 
with grafs ; lb that the people of the village were at no 
trouble to find them lodging. IfmylofF having invited us 
into his tent, fet before us fome dried falmon and berries ; 
which, I was fatisfied, was the bell; cheer he had. He ap¬ 
peared to be a fenfible intelligent man; and 1 felt no ifnall 
mortification in not being able to converfe with him, unlefs 
by figns, aflifted by figures, and other characters; which 
however were a very great help. I defired to fee him on 
board the next day ; and accordingly he came, with all his Thurfday *5. 
attendants. Indeed, he had moved into our neighbourhood, 
for the exprefs purpofe of waiting upon us. 
I was in hopes to have had by him, the chart which his 
three countrymen had promifed; but I was difappointed. 
However, he afiured me I Ihould have it; and he kept his 
word. I found that he was very well acquainted with the 
geography of thefe parts, and with all the dilcoveries that 
had been made in them by the Ruffians. On feeing the 
modern maps, he at once pointed out their errors. He told 
me, he had accompanied Lieutenant Syndo, or Synd as he 
called him, in his expedition to the North; and, accord¬ 
ing to his account, they did not proceed farther than the 
Tfchukotfkoi Nos, or rather than the bay of St. Laurence; 
for he pointed on our chart to the very place where I landed. 
From thence, he faid, they went to an illand in latitude 63°, 
upon which they did not land, nor could he tell me its 
name. But I Ihould guefs it to be the fame to which I gave 
the name of Clerked Ifland. To what place Synd went 
after that, or in what manner he fpent the two years, dur¬ 
ing which, as IfmylofF faid, his refearches lafted, he either 
could not or would not inform us. Perhaps he did not com- 
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