continent*;:. and the account>propagated by its, inhabitants
of a great promontory, called Atachtak, ftretching from
the continent N. E.,of Alakfu, is.not.at all improbable.
Although the conduct of the iflanders appeared more
friendly, yet-on account of their numbers Glottoff refolved
not to pafs another winter upon Kadyak, and accordingly
prepared for his departure. «He- wanted hoops for repairing
his water-calks ; and being told by the natives
that there weretrees on the ifland at no great diftance
from the bay, he difpatched on the 25th of- April Lukas
Ftorulkin with eleven -men for >the purpofe .of felling
wood. Ftorulkin returned the fame day with the following
intelligence : that after rowing along the South
eoaft o f the ifland forty or fifty verfts from thè haveh,
hè obferved, about half a verft from the fliore, a confider-
able number of alders, fimilar to thofe found in Kamtchatka,
growing in yallies between the rocks. "The largeft
trunks were from two to four verlhocks in diameter.
Of this wood he felled as much as he had occafion for ;
and returned without having met with either iflander
or habitation.
forSyak, They brought the veffel down the creek in May; and,
M a y , „ 6 4 . after taking in an the peltry and flores, left Kadyak on
the 24th. Contrary winds .retarded their voyage, and
drove them near the ifland Alakfu, which they paffed ;
.their water being nearly exhaufted, they afterwards
landed
landed upon another ifland, called Saktunk, in order
to -procure a frelh flock. At laft on the 3d of July,
they- arrived again at Umnak, and anchored in a bay
which Glottoff' had formerly vilited. He immediately
went alhore in a haidar, and foon foUnd out his former
hut, which was in ruins : near it he obferved another
Ruffian dwelling, that1 had been built in his abfence,
in < which lay a murdered ’Ruffian, hut whofe face none
of them knew. Glottoff, refolving to procure further information,
went acrofs the. ifland the 5th of July, accompanied
by fixteen of his crew. He difcovered the l'emains
of a burnt veffel, fbme prayerbooks,- images, & e .; all the
iron work and cordage were carried off. Near th'e fpot he
found likewife a bathing room filled with murdered Ruffians
in-their'clothes.- From fome marks, he concluded
that this was the veffel fitted out by Protaflbff ; nor was
he miftaken in his • conjedtures.- ■
Alarmed at the fate of his countrymen, Glottoff returned
to the fhip, and held a confultation upon the
meafures neceflary to be taken ;' and *it was unanimoufly
refolved that''they fhould endeavour to procure' more
intelligence concerning the veflel. In the mean time
fiven iflanders-came rowing off in baidars,and pretended
that they wanted to trade.' They fhewed fea-otter
fkins at a diftance, but would not• venture on board;
anfl.
Arrival at
Umnak.