•»8. Wind S8 fleered W. at the rate of 5 knots,.and?
failed 130 verfts.
*9. Wind S. W. the fhip drove under the- forefail.
I». Wind E. N-. E. fleered W. N. W. at the: rate:
of 3 knots'.
21. Wind E. N. E. at the rate of 4 to 5 knots* failed*
2ooverfts.
22. Wind- N.-E. at 4 7 knots,- 15 a verfts-..
23. Wind E. N. E. fleered W. at 3 knots,j oof. verfts,-
24. Wind E. fleered W. at the rate, of 3 knots, 305
verfts.
25. Wind N-. E. fleered W. at? 5 knots 100 verfts.
26. The windcontinued-N.E. and frefhened,,fleered*
W. at the rate of 7 knots, 200 verfts.
27. A fm all breeze N. N.-W. with which however
failed 150 verfts»
28. Wind being W. S.-W- drove 24} hours under
bare-poles.-
29. Wind South, fleered' W. at the rate of 2. knots,.
48 verfts— this day faw land-.
30. Wind S. S. E. failed,.at the rate o f 4 knots, 96
verfts, and approached the land, which found
to be the ifland Karaga— From the i l l to the
13th of Auguft, continued our voyage towards
the mouth of Kamtchatka river, fometimes
plying to windward, fometimes driving, and at
lafl arrived happily with a rich cargo.
G FI A P.
•-G H A P. XI.
SoloviofF’s 'voyage— he teaches Unalafhka, and pajfes two
•winters upon that ifland-—relation of what pajjed there
— -fruitlefs attempts ofhbe natives to deflroy the crew—
-Return of Solovioff to Kamtchatka—-journal of his
. voyage in returning^defcription of 'the ijlands Umnak
rand XJmXzSahi^— produdlions— inhabitants— their manners'—
‘euflbmi,
IN the year 1764, Jacob UlednikofF. merchant of ir-'°n*nf
kutfk and company, fitted out a fhip called the ■ r
Apoftles Peter and Paul, under the command of Ivan
Solovioff : fhe faded from the mouth o f Kamtchatka
river the 25 th of Auguft. The crew confifted of fifty-
five men, amongft whom were Tome of the owners,
and thirteen Kamtchadals.
They fleered at firft S. E. with the wind at N. W. but
on its coming foutherly they afterwards fhaped their
courfe E. N. E. The 27th one of the Ruffian failors
died off Kamtchatka point; the 31 ft they made Beering’s
Ifland, which they paired leaving it on their left. The
I ft and 2d of September they were becalmed, and afterwards
the wind fpringing up at W. S. W. they continued
S .a their