verfts from the latter, and is forty in circumference.
Thefe three iflands contain feveral high rocky mountains.
The number of inhabitants ? were computed to
be about forty-two men, without reckoning women
and children. , - ,
C H A P
C H A P . VII.
Voyage of Andrean Tolftyk in the St. Andrean and Natalia—
Difcovery of fome New IJlands called Andreanoff-
Ikye Oftrova— Defcription of fix of thofe IJlands.
T H E moft remarkable voyage hitherto made is that voyagtofAn-
J ° drean Tolftyk
of the St. Andrean and Natalia, j of which the fol-
lowing extradt is drawn from the Journals of the two taha’
Cofiiics, Peter Wafyutinfkoi and Maxim LafarofF. This
veflel, fitted out by the above-mentioned merchant Andrean
Tolftyk, weighed from the mouth of the Kamt-
chatka river September 27, 1760 ; fhe flood out to fea
right Eaftwards, and on the 29th reached Beering’s
Ifland. There fire lay at anchor in a bay, from whence
the crew brought all the tackle and lading afhore. Soo.n
afterwards they were driven upon the fhore by a violent
autumnal ftorm, without any other damage than the lofs
of an anchor. Here they pafled the w in te ran d having
refitted their veflel, put to fea June 24, 1761 : they
pafled by Capper Ifland, which lies, about an hundred
and fifty verfts from the former, and fleered S. E. towards
the Aleutian Ifles, which they did not reach before
the 6th of Auguft. They caft anchor in an open bay
near Attak, in order to. procure an interpreter from the
Toigon