What became of Fedot Alexeff and his crew will be mentioned
hereafter. Defhneff and his companions, who
amounted to twenty-five perfons, now fought for the
An ad y r; but being entirely unacquainted with the
country,' ten weeks elapfed before they reached its banks
at a fmall diftance from its mouth : here he found neither
wood nor inhabitants* & c .
The following year he went further up the river, and
built Anadirfkoi Oftrog :• here he was joined by fome
Ruffians on the 25th of April, 1650, who came by land
from the river Kovyma. In 1652, Defhneff having
conftructed a veffel, failed down the Anadyr as far as
its mouth, and obferved on the North fide a fand bank,
which ftretched a conliderable way into the fea. A
fand bank of this kind is called, in Siberia,'Korga. Great
numbers of fea-horfes were found to refort to the
mouth of the Anadyr. Defhneff collected feveral of
their teeth, and thought himfelf amply compenfated by
this acquifition for the trouble of his expedition. In
the following year, Defhneff ordered wood to be felled
for the purpofe of conftruCting a veffel, in which he
propofed fending the tribute which he had collected by
fea to Yakutfk K But this defign was laid afide from the
* Tha t is, by fea, from the mouth o f the. Anadyr, round Tfchukot-
JkoiNofs to the river Lena, and then up. that river to Yakutfk.
want
want of other materials. It was alfo reported, that the
fea about Tfchukotfkoi Nofs was not every year free
from ice.
Another1 expedition was made in 1654 to the Korga,
for the purpofe o f collecting fea-horfe teeth. A Coffac,
named Yufko Soliverftoff, was one of the party, the
fame who had not long before accompanied the Coffac
Michael Stadukin, upon a voyage of difcovery in the
Frozen Sea. This perfon was fent from Yakutfk to
colled fea-horfe teeth, for the benefit of the crown. In
his inftruCtions mention is made of the river Yentfhen-
don, which falls into the bay of Penffiinfk, and of the
Anadyr; and he was ordered to exaCt a tribute from
the inhabitants dwelling near thefe rivers; for the adventures
of Defhneff were not as yet known at Yakutfk.
This Was the oecafion of new difcontents. Soliverftoff
claimed to himfelf the difcovery of the Korga, as if he
had failed to that place in his voyage with Stadukin in
1649. Defhneff, however, proved that Soliverftoff had
not even reached Tfchukotfkoi Nofs, which he defcrib.es
as nothing but bare rock, and it was but too well known
to him, becaufe the veffel of Ankudinoff was fhip-
wrecked there. “ Tfchukotfkoi Nofs,” adds Defhneff,
“ is nof the firft promontory which prefents itfelf un-
“ der the name of Svatoi Nofs *. It is known by the.
*• two
* We may colledt from Defhneff's reafoning, that Soliverftoff, in endeavouring
to prove that he had failed round the Eaftern extremity of
Alia,