Arrival at
Unalafhka.
their former courfe ; until the 5th they failed on with
the wind at fouth;-but on the 5th. and 6th, from
changeable breezes and dead calms, made no progrcls
from the 7 th to- the 13th, they failed E; S. E. with
Southerly and .Wefterly winds ; and from that time ,t;o
the fifteenth Eaft, with the wind at Weft..
September 16, they made the iflancl Umnak, where
Solovioff had formerly been in Nikiphoroff’s veffel.. ; As
they failed along the Northern coaft, three iflanders came
to them in baidars ; but, the crew having no interpreter,
they would not come on board.- As they found no good
bay on that fhore, they proceeded through a ftrait of
about a verft broad, which feparates Umnak from Una-
lafhka. They lay-to during the night; and early on
the 17 th dropped anchor at the diftance of about t,wo
hundred yards from the ftiore, in a bay on the North
fide of the laft mentioned ifland.
From thence the captain difpatched Gregory KorenofF
at the head of twenty men in a baidar, with orders , to
land, reconnoitre the country, find out the neareft habitations,
and report the difpofition of the people. KorenofFreturned
the fame day, with an account that he had
difcovered one of the dwelling-caves of the favages, but
abandoned and demolifhed, in which he had found traces
of Ruffians, viz. a written legend, and a broken mufket*-
ftock. In confequence of this intelligence, they brought
the
the ffiip near the coaft, and endeavoured to get into tfie
mouth-of a river called by the natives Tfikanok, and by
the Ruffians Ofernia,.but were prevented by ffiallow water.
They landed however their tackle and lading. No natives
made their appearance until the 2 2d, when two of
them came of their own accord, and welcomed the Ruffians
on. their arrival. They told their names, and were
recognized by Solovioff ; he had known them on a
former expedition, when Agiak, one of the two, had
ferved as an interpreter; the other, whofe name was
Kaffimak, had voluntarily continued fome time with the-
crew on the fame occafion.
Thefe two perfons recounted: the particular circum-
ftances which attended the lofs of KulkofPs, ProtaffofPs,
and Trapefnikoff’s veffels ; from the laft of which Kaffimak
had, with great hazard of his life, efcaped by flight.
Agiak had; ferved as interpreter to ProtaffofPs company,
and related that the iflanders, after murdering the hunting
detachments of the Ruffians, came to the harbour,
and entered the fit ip under the moft friendly appearances.
Finding the crew in perfect fecurity, they fuddenly attacked
and flew them, together with their commander.
He added, that he had hid himfelf under a bench until
the murderers were gone : that fince that time,, he, as
well as Kaffimak, had lived as fugitives ; and in the
courfe of their wanderings had learned the following-
intelligence from the girls who were gathering berries in
the