•Solovioff lays
up the VefTel,
..and winters
-upon Una-
Jaflika,
party went to the fame place by foa. The Toigon however
was treated kindly, and even permitted to return
home on condition of leaving his fon as an hoilage. In
confequence of this kind behaviour the inhabitants of
three other villages, Agulak, Kntchlok, and Makufki presented
hoftages of their own .accord.
From the remaining timber of the old dwelling the
Ruffians built a new h u t ; and on the fourteenth they
laid up the veffel. Koronoff was then fent upon a reconnoitring
party to the Southern fide of the ifland, which
in that part was not more than five or fix verfts broad .:
he proceeded on with his companions, fometimes rowing
in canoes, fometimes travelling by land and dragging
them .after. He returned the twentieth, and reported
that he had found upon the coaft on the further fide o f
the ifland an empty habitation. That he rowed from
thence Eaftward along the lhore, and behind the firft point
of land came to an ifland in the next bay ; there he found
about forty iflanders of both foxes' lodged under their
baidars, who by his friendly behaviour had been induced
to give him three hoftages. Thefe people afterwards
fettled in the above-mentioned empty hut, and- came frequently,
;to the harbour.
On the 28 th of Odfober, Solovioff himfelf went alfo
upon a reconnoitring party along the North coaft, towards
the^ North-Eaft end of the ifland. He rowed from the^
• ■ firft
firft promontory acrofs a bay ; and found on the oppofite
point of land a dwelling place called Agulok, which lies
about four hours row from the harbour. He found there
thirteen men and about forty women and children, who
delivered up feveral gun-barrels and ffiip-ftores, and like-
wife informed him of two of Korovin’s crew who had
been murdered.
November 5, they proceeded farther; and after five or
fix hours rowing, they faw on a point of land another
dwelling called Ikutchlok, beyond which the interpreter
fhewed them the haven, where Korovin’s fifip had been
at anchor. This was called Makuffiinfhy Bay; and on
an ifland within it they found two Toigons, called Itch-
adak and Kagumaga, with about an hundred and eighty
people of both foxes employed in hunting foa-bears.
Thefe natives were not in the leaft hoftile, and Solovioff
-endeavoured to eftabliffi and confirm a friendly intercourfe
between them and his people. He remained with them
tintil the 1 oth, when the Toigons invited him to their
winter quarters, which lay about five hours fail farther
lEaft: there he found two dwelling naves, each of forty
yards fquare, near a rivulet abounding with fifli which
fell from a lake into a little bay. In the neighbourhood
•of this village is a hot fpring below the foa mark, which
is only to be foen at ebb tide. From hence he departed
^ the