n
been loft. He likewife required a circumftantial account
of their voyages. By another order of the 24th
he fent for four of the principal hoftages, and demanded
the tribute of Ikins which had been exacted from the
iflanders. But as the weather was generally tempeftuous
at this feafon of the year, they deferred fending them
till the' fpring. May the 3 ' fi‘ Levalhefl fet fail for
•Kamtchatka ; and in 17 7 1 returned fafely from his expedition
at St. Peterfburg.
The two veffels remained at Umnak until the year
1770, during which time the crews met with no opposition
from the iflanders. They continued their hunting
parties, in which they had fuch good fortune, that
the fhare of Otcheredin’s veffel (whofe voyage is here
-chiefly related) confifted in 530 large fea-otter fkms,
40 young ones and 30 cubs, the fkins o f 656 fine black
foxes, 100 of an inferior fort, and about 1230 red fox
Ikins.
Return of
Otciie redin to
-’Qe-koifk.
With this large cargo of furs Otcheredin fet fail on the
22d of May, 1770, from Umnak, leaving Popoff’s Crew
behind. A fhort time before their departure, the other
interpreter Ivan Surgeff, at the inftigation of his relations,
defer ted.
After having touched at the neareft o f the Aleutian
Iflands, Otcheredin and his crew arrived on the 24th of
July
July at Ochotfk. They brought two iflanders with
them, whom they baptized. The one was named
Alexey SoloviefF; the other Boris Otcheredin. Thefe
iflanders unfortunately died on their way to Peterfburg ;
the firft between Yakutfk and Irkutfk; and the latter
at Irkutfk, where he arrived on the ift of February,,
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