Voyage of
VorobiefF, »750.
Voyage o f
Novikoff and
BacchofF from
Anadyrik.
Augufl 3, 1750, the veffel Simeon and John, fitted
out by the above-mentioned WfevidofF, agent for the
Ruffian merchant A* Rybenfkoi, and manned with fourteen
Ruffians (who were partly merchants and partly
hunters) and thirty Kamtchadals, failed out for the
difcovery of new iflands, under the command o f the
Coffac'Vorobieff. They were driven by a violent current
and tempeftuous weather to a fmall defert illatxd, whofe
pofition is not determined ; but which was probably one
of thole that lie near Beering’s Ifland. The fhip being
fo fhattered by the ftorm, that it wa’s no longer in a
condition to keep the fea, Vorobieff built another fmall
veflel with drift-wood, which he called Jeremiah .; in
Which he. arrived at Kamtchatka ih Autumn* 1732.
Upon the above-mentioned ifland were caught 706
old and 120 cub fea-otters, 1900 blue foxes, 5700 black
fea-bears, and 13x0 Kotiki, or cub fea-bears.
A voyage made about this time from Anadyrik de~
ferves to be mentioned.;
Augufl 24, 1749, Simeon Novikoff of Yakutfk, and
Ivan BacchofF of Uflyug, agents for Ivan Shilkin, failed
from Anadyrik into the mouth of the Kamtchatka river.
They affigned the ipfecurit.y o f the roads as their reafon
for coming from Anadyrik to Kamtchatka by fea; on
this account, having determined to rifk all the dangers
of
of a fea voyage, they built a veffel one hundred and
thirty verfis above Anadyr, after having employed two
years and five months in its confirmation.
The narrative of their expedition is as follows. In Narrative of
te Voyage.
1748, they failed down the river Anadyr, and through
two bays, called Kopeikina and Onemenfkaya, where they
found many fand bank3, but paffed round them without
difficulty. From thence they fleered into the exterior
gulph, and waited for a favourable wind. Here they faw
feveral Tfchutfki, who appeared upon the heights fingly
and not in bodies, as if to reconnoitre; which made
them cautious. They had defended the river and its
bays‘in nine days. In paffing the large opening of the
exterior bay, they fleered between the beach, that lies to
the left, and a rock near i t ; where, at about an hundred
and twenty yards from the rock, the depth of water is
from three to four fathoms. From the Opening they
-fleered E. 5. E. about fifty verfis, in about four fathom
water ; then doubled a fandy point, which runs out di-
reótly againft thé Tfhuktfhi coafl, and thus reached the
open fea.
From the 10th of July to the 30th, they were driven
about by tempeftuous winds* at no great diftance from
the mouth, of the Anadyr; and ran up the fmall river
Katirka, upon whole banks dwell the Koriacs., a people
G 2 tributary