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A P P E N D I X t
ExiraS from the journal of a voyage made by Captain
Krenitzin and Lieutenant Levafheff to the Fox Iflands,
in_ 1768, 1769, by order of the Eniprefs of Raffia—
they fa il from Kamtchatka— arrive at Beering’s and
Copper Iflands— reach the Fox Iflands— Krenitzin-
winters at Alaxa— Lc vaflieiF upon Unalafhka——productions
of Un al afh kz— defcription of the inhabitants of the
Fox Iflands— their manners and cujloms, <%?r.
o N the 23d of July Captain Krenitzin failed in the Krenitzin and
Galliot St. Catherine from the mouth of the Kamt-^d* fi''
•, , . . J " ' M ou th o f the cnatka river towards America 1 lie was accompanied by
Lieutenant Levafheff, in the Hooker St. Paul. Their
inftnuftions were regulated by information derived from
Beering’s expedition in 174 1. Shaping their courfe accordingly,
they found themfelves more to the North
than they expected ; and were told by the Ruffian
traders and hunters, that a fimilar * miftake was com-
* This pafiage is obfcurely exprefled. Its meaning may be afcer-
tai'ning by comparing Krenitzin’s chart with that o f Beering’s voyage
prefixed to Muller's account o f the Ruffian Difcoveries. The route o f
Krenitzin’s vefiel was confiderably to the North of the courfe held by
Beering and TfchirikofF, and confequently he failed through the middle
o f what they had fuppofed to be a continent, and which he found to
be an open tea. See Robertfon’s Hiftory o f America, p. 461, and
p. 26, of this work.
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