the-crew was fuddenly attacked by the iflanders; four
men were 11am upon the fpot, as many wounded, and
the huts reduced to alhes.
May 3, Lobafchkoff and another Ruffian were killed,
'as they were going to bathe in the warm fprings, which
lie about five verfts from the haven : upon which feven
of the hoftages were put to death. The fame month the
natives attempted to furprife the Ruffians in their huts ;
but being fortunately difcovered in time were repulfed by
means of the fire arms. At length the Ruffians, finding
themfelves in continual danger from thele attempts,
weighed anchor, and failed for Umnak, where they took
up two inhabitants with their wives and children, in
order to fliew them other iflands. They were prevented
however by tempeftuous weather from reaching them ;
and were driven out to fea Weftward with fuch violence,
that all their fails were carried away : at length on the
2,3d of September they ftruck againft land, which they
took for the peninfula of Kamtchatka ; and they found
it to be the diftri.fi of Stobollkoi Oftrog. Six men were
immediately difpatched in the fmall boat and two baidars
to land: they carried with them feveral girls (who had
been brought from the new difcovered iftands) in order
to gather berries. Mean while the crew endeavoured to
ply the fhip to the windward. When the boat returned,
thofe on board were fcarcely able, on account of the
ilprm, to row to the fhip, and to catch hold of a lope,
which
which was filing out to them. Two men remained with
the baidars, and were afterwards carried by fome Kamt-
chadals to New Kamtchatkoi Oftrog. The fhip without
one fail remaining was driven along the coaft of Kamtchatka
towards A vatcha, and about feventy r verfts from
that harbour ran into the bay of Kalatzoff on the 25th
of September. Their cargo confifted of the Ikins of
900 old and young,lea-otters, and of 350 foxes.
Pulhkareff and his crew; had during this voyage behaved
with fuch inhumanity towards,the iflanders, th,at
they were brought to trial in the year 1764; and the
above-mentioned account is taken from the .concurring
evidence of feyeral witnefies. It appears alfo, that .they
brought aw ay from Atchu and Amleg two Aleutian men
and three boys, Ivan an Aleutian interpreter, and above
twenty women and girls whom they debauched. Ivan,
and one of the boys whom they called Mofes, w'ere the
only perfons who arrived at Kamtchatka. Upon their
firft approach to that coaft, fourteen women were fent
alhore to dig roots and to gather berries. Of thefe, two
ran away, and a third was killed, as they were returning
to the fhip by one Gorelin : upon this the others in a fit
of defpair leaped into the fea and were drowned. All
the remaing Aleutians, excepting the two perfons above-
mentioned, were immediately thrown overboard by Pulh-
karefPs order. The account which follows, although it
is found in the depofitions, deferves not to be entirely
credited in all particulars.