Toigon Tunulgafen ;! but the latter being dead, they fent
prefents to the Toigon Bakutun. As there were already,
three fhips lying atdnchor.before this Ifland, on the 19th
they again ftood-out to fea in queft of the more diftant
iflands, for the purpofe of exacting a tribute. They
carried on board a relation of the Toigon Bakutun, who
had a flight knowledge of the Ruffian language. They
fleered N. E. and N. E. by E. and were driven, on the
28th, by a high gale of wind towards an ifland, before
* which they immediately call anchor. The following
morning the two Coffacs with a party of eight perfons
Went afhore to reconnoitre the ifland ; they faw no inhabitants.
Aughft 30, the veffel was brought into a fafe
bay. The next day fome of the crew were fent affiore
to procure wood, that the ffiip might be refitted; but
there, were no large trees to be met with upon the whole
ifland. Lafaroff, who was one of the party, had been
■ Av4hTon= of there before in Serebranikoff’s veffel: he called the ifland
' t & t '- Ayagh or Kayachu; and another, which lay about the
j i g diftance of twenty verfts, Kanaga. As they were returning
to the ffiip, they faw two iflanders rowing in
fmall canoes towards Kanaga, one of whom had ferved
as an interpreter, and ivas known to Lafaroff. The latter
accordingly made them a prefent of fome freffi pro-
vifion, which the others gratefully accepted, and then
continued their cotirfe acrofs the ftrait to Kanaga. Soon
afterwards Lafaroff and eight men rowed over to that
ifland, and having invited the Toigon, who was a rela-
I tion
tion of the above-mentioned interpreter, to pay them a
vifit at Kayachu, they immediately returned to the ffiip.
Near the place where they lay at anchor, a rivulet
falls into the bay ; it flows from a lake that is about
two or three verfts in circumference, and which is formed
from a number of fmall fprings. Its courfe is about
eight verfts long ; and in fumrper feveral fpecies of fal-
Bion and other fiffi, fimilar to thofe which are found at
Kamtchatka, afcend the fiream as far as the lake.
Lafaroff was employed in fiihing in this rivulet, when
the Toigon of Kanaga, accompanied with a confiderable
number of the natives in fifteen baidars, arrived at the
ffiip : he was hofpitably entertained, and received feveral
prefents. The Ruffians feized this opportunity of per-
fuading the iflanders to acknowledge themfelves fubjedt
to the Emprefs, and to pay a regular tribute ; to which
.they made no great objection. By means of the interpreter,
the following information was obtained from the
Toigon. The natives chiefly fubfift upon dried fiffi and
„other fea-animals. They catch # t-urbot of a very large
fee, and take feals by means of harpoons, to which they
fallen bladders. They fiffi for cod with bone hooks,
and lines made of a long and tough fpecies of fea-weed,
* The author adds, that thefe turbot [paltus] weigh occafionaHy fevèn
or eight pood. •
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