Soon afterwards Korovin was fent with a. party o f
twenty men to coaft the ifland of Umnak, in. order to
difcover if any part of MedvedefPs crew had made their
efcape from the general maflacre : but his enquiries
were without fuccefs. In the courfe of this expedition,
as he lay at anchor, in. September, before a fmalL ifland
fituated between Umnak. and Unalafhka, fome favages
rowed towards the Ruffians in two large baidars-; and
having ffiot at them with fire-arms, though without
effedt,. inftantly retired-. The fame evening Korovin
entered a bay of the ifland Umnak, with an intention
o f paffing the night on ffiore : but as he came near
the coaft, a large number of favages in an hundred baidars
furrounded and faluted him with a volley of darts.
Korovin fired and foon difperfed them; , and immediately
made to- a large baidar, which h.e faw at fome dif-
tance, in hopes of finding fome. Ruffians, He was
however miftaken ; the iflanders who were aboard landed
at his approach, and, after {hooting at him from their
fire-arms, retired to the mountains..
Korovin found there an empty baidar, which he knew-
to be the fame in which Barnafheff had failed, when he
was fent upon an hunting party» Within were nothing
but two hatchets and fome iron points for darts.. Three
women were feized at the fame time ; and two natives,
who refufed to furrender themfelves, were put to death.
They
They then made to the dwelling,, from which all the
inhabitants had run away, and found therein pieces of
Ruffian leather, blades of fmall knives, ffiirts, and other
things, which had belonged to the Ruffians. All the
information which they could procure from the women
whom they had taken prifoners, was, that the crew had
been killed, and this booty taken away by the inhabitants,
who had retired to the ifland Unalafhka. Korovin
gave thefe women their liberty, and, being apprehenfive
of freffi attacks, returned to the haven.
I
Towards winter Korovin, with a party of twenty-two-
men, was fent upon an hunting expedition to the Weft-
ern point of Unalafhka : he was accompanied by an
Aleutian interpreter, called Ivan Glottoff. Being informed
by fome iflanders, that a Ruffian flifp, under
the command of Ivan Solovioff*, was then lying before
Unalafhka, he immediately rowed towards the haven
where fixe was at anchor. On the way he had" a fharp
encounter with the natives, who endeavoured' to prevent
him from l a n d in g o f thefe, ten were killed
upon the fpot; and the remainder fled away, leaving
behind them fome women and children-.
Korovin fiaid three days aboard SoloviofPs veflel,
and then returned to the place where he had been fo
lately attacked. The inhabitants however, for this.
* Chap. XI..
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