put- to fea^ and fleered' until the-aSth-N. E. by N. E.
i E. Here h&' obferved the variation of the compafs
afhore, and found it to be ra°-i Eaft. The 28th a
contrary wind; which was followed by a calm, obliged
him to come to an anchor, and kept him ftationary
until the 10th of Auguft, when a favourable breeze
fpringing- up he fet fa il; he then endeavoured to fleer
•at dome diftance 'from fhore, holding a more Eafterly
Tchttrfo, and M. E. by E.-' But the veflel was impeded by
large bodies of floating ice, and a ftrong current, which
leaned to bear Weftward at the rate of a verft.an hour,
THefe circumflances very much retarded bis. course. 1 On
Hid 1 8th, the weather being thick and foggy, he found
himfelf unexpectedly near the ’ coaft with a, number of
ice -iflands before him, which on the 1 9th entirely fur-
rbtlnded and hemmed in the veflel. He continued in
that fltuation, and in a continual fog,"until the 23d,
when he got clear, and endeavoured by fleering N. E.
to regain the open fea, which was. much dels, clogged
with ice than near the fhore: He was' forced'- however,
by contrary'winds, S'. E. and E. among large
mafles- of floating ice. This drift of ice being, pafled,
he again flood 'to the N. E. in order to- double -She-
latfkdi Nofs*; but before he could reach the iflands
He does not feem'to have been deterred from proceeding by.any
ffippdfed difficulty Tn paffing SHelatfcoi Nofs, but to' have veered about
nierely on account o f , the, late feafon pf the year. Shelarikoi Nofs is
; fo called from the Slhelagen, a tribe of the Tfchutiki, and has been
ftippofed to be the fame as Tfchukotlkoi Nofs. S. R. G. III. p. 52.
lying
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lying near it, he1 was fo retarded by- contrary winds,
that he was obliged, on account of the advanced fea-
. , TT i* i Not being able fon, to fearch for a wintering place. H e accordingly to double
failed South towards an open bay, which lies on
Well fide of .Shelatfkoi Nofs, .and which no navigator
had explored before him. He fleered into it on the
25th, and got upon a fhoal between a fmall. ifland,
and a point of land which juts from the Eaflern
coaft of this bay. Having got clear with much difficulty,
he continued for a iliort time a S; E . courfe,
then turned S. W. He then landed in- order to difeover
a fpot proper for their winter refidence ; and found two
fmall rivulets, but neither trees nor drift wood. The
veflel was towed'along the Southerly fide of the bay as
far as the ifland Sabadei. On the 5th of September, he
faw fome huts of the Tfchutfki clofe to the narrow
channel between Sabadei and the main land ; but the
inhabitants fled on his approach...
Not having met with a proper fituation, be flood
out to fea, and got round the ifland Sabadei on the
8th, when he fattened the veflel to a large body of fice,
and was carried along by a current towards W. S. W.
at the rate of five verfts an hour. On the 1 oth, he
faw far to the N. E. by N. a mountain, and fleered the
n t h and 1 2th towards, his former wintering place in winterskcond
Time at
the river Kovyma. Shalauroff propofed to have made
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