On the ift o f June we got on board two hundred and f if ty
poods, or nine thoufand pound weight o f ry e flour, with which
we were fupplied from the ftores o f St. Peter and St. Paul’s ;
and the Difcovery had a proportional quantity. T h e men
were immediately put on fu ll allowance o f bread, w hich
they had not been indulged in fince our leaving the Cape o f
Good Hope. T he fame day, our watering was completed,
ha vin g got on board fixty-five tons.
On the 4th, w e had frefh breezes, and’hard'rain, which
difappointed us in our defign o f drefling the Ihips, and
obliged us to content ourfelves with firing twenty-one guns,
in honour o f the day, and Celebrating it in other refpeda
in the beft manner we were able. Port, w ho was left with
u s on account o f his Ikill in languages,, behaved h im fe lf
with fo much modefty and difcretion, that, as foon as his
mailer was gone, he was no longer Jean Port, but Monfieur
Port, the interpreter.; and partook, as welL as the ferjeant
(in his capacity o f commander of. the. p lace), o f the entertainment
o f the day. Our worthy friend, the pried; o f Para-
tounea, having g o t . intelligence o f its being our k in g ’s
birth day, gave alfo a fumptuous f e a d ;. at which fame o f
our gentlemen were prefent, who feemed h ig h ly delighted
w ith their entertainment, w hich confided o f abundance o f
good eating and drinking, together with dancing,
On the 6th, twenty head o f cattle were, fent us by the
. Commander’s orders from the Verchnei ojlrog, which is fitu -
ated on the river Kamtfchatka, at the diflance o f near a
hundred miles from this plaqe, in a d ir e d l line. T h e y were
o f a moderate f iz e ; and, notwithdanding the Kamtfchadales
had been feventeen days in driving them down to the harbour,
arrived in good condition. T h e four fo llowin g days.
were employed in m a k in g ready for f e a ; and, on the n th , i*S»t
, June.
at two in the morning, w e began to unmoor; but, before — --_
w e had.got one anchor up, it b lew fo drong a gale from the F" ay
North Ead, that w e kept fad, and moored a g a in ; conjecturin
g , from the pofition o f the entrance o f the bay, that the
current o f wind would fet up the channel. Accordingly,
the pinnace being fent out to examine the pafiage, returned
w ith an account, that the wind blew dron g from the South
Ead, w ith a great fwell, fetting into the bay, w hich would
have made any attempt to g e t to fea very hazardous.
Our friend Port now took his leave o f us, and carried with
h im the box with our journals, w h ich was to go b y the
Major, and the pacquet that was to be fent exprefs. On the
12th, the weather being moderate, we began to unmoor ¿¡b it/ it,
a g a in ; but, after breaking the mefienger, and reeving a
ru nn in g purchafe with a fix inch hawfer, which alfo
broke three times, we were obliged, at lad, to heave a
drain at low water, and wait for the flowing o f the tide to
raife the anchor. This projeft fucceeded ; but not without
damaging the cable in the wak e o f the hawfe. At three,
we weighed the bed bower, and fet fa il; and, at eight,
having little wind, and the tide m akin g againd us, we
dropped anchor again in ten fathoms, o ff the mouth o f
Rakowina h a rb o u r ; the ojlrog bearing North by Ead h a lf
Ead, two miles and a h a lf d id a n t ; the needle rocks on the
Ead fide o f the pafiage South South Ead h a lf E a d ; and the
high rock, on the Wed fide o f the pafiage, South.
On the 13th, at four in the morning, we got under w a y Sunday >3.
with the ebb tide ; and, there being a dead calm, the boats
were Tent ahead to tow the ihips. At ten, the wind
Springing up from the South Ead by South, and the tide
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