. felves down, covered only with their clothes and `mats of plaited grafs. Regardless of every thing but the gratification of the prefent moment, they poffefs neither religion nor decency, and are little removed from the brutes. Every thing being ready for their departure, the Toigons brought their voluntary tribute, and expreffed their fatisfaction at the good conduct of the Ruffians, and invited their future correfpondence, promifing they fhould be treated well. About the middle of June, 1764, they failed for Kamtschatka, and in a few days anchored before one of the Aleutian Inlands. From thence they were driven by tempeftuous weather on a rocky fhore, where they were obliged to land the cargo, and to haul up the fhip to be repaired. On the 18th of August, they again stood out to fea, and having foon after fprung a leak, they were again obliged to refit their veffel. On the 4th of September, they came in fight of the peninsula of Kamtschatka; but while they were endeavouring to run into the mouth of the river of the fame name, they were forced by a ftorm on the coast, and the vessel and the greatest part of her cargo were loft. Notwithstanding this difaftrous termination of their labours, this voyage is one of the most circumftantial and important of any we have hitherto had occafion to narrate in the fame track. VOYAGE OF THE ZACHARIAS AND THIS voyage was conducted by Drufinin, whofe name has been mentioned before. The VOL. X. A a fhip fhip was manned by thirty-four Ruffians and three Kamtfchadales; and the diftreffes they ran through have not been exceeded in any nautic enterprise on record. They failed from Okotsk on the 6th of Septeniber, 1762, and on the 11th of October arrived at the harbour of St. Peter and Paul, where they wintered. In June, 1763, they again put to fea, and, after a profperous navigation, reached the Aleutian Ifles, and anchored before Attak, where they took up feven fhipwrecked Ruffians, and among the reft, Korelin, who furnished the following relation. About the middle of July they proceeded to fome of the more distant iflands, and having laid in a fupply of water, they continued their voyage. In the beginning of September, they reached Umnak, one of the Fox Iflands, where they caft anchor. Here a large party landed, and, after paffing over to the eastern extremity of the island, they returned in fafety to the fhip. During this excurfion they found several traces of their countrymen. On the 22d, Drufinin continued his voyage to the northern point of Unalafhka, and having Jaid up the veffel in a secure harbour, they took the lading afhore, and began to conftruct a hut. Soon after their arrival two Toigons brought voluntary hoftages, and their example was immediately followed by chiefs more remote. Three companies were now dispatched on a hunting expedition; one confifting of eleven men, among whom was Korelin, under the guidance of Peter Tfekalef; a fecond, of the fame number, under the command of Michael Kudyakof; and a third, of nine men, under Yephim Katkitfyn. Kafkitfyn. Of the two laff no circumftantial account has ever been received, as not one of them ever returned to Kamtfchatka. Kafkitfyn remained near the harbour, while the other two parties proceeded to the northern part of the island. Kudyakof ftopped at a village called Kalaktak, and Tfekalef went on to Inalok, about thirty verfts farther. Having found a dwelling with about feventy inhabitants there, whom he apparently conciliated by kindness, he built a hut for himfelf and his companions, and kept a conftant watch. On the 4th of December, fix of the party being difpatched to look after the pit-falls for their game, there only remained Tfekalef, Korelin, Bragin, Shaffyrin, and Kokovin, to guard the hut. The iflanders feeing them weakened by this feparation, took the opportunity of displaying the first proofs of their hoftile intentions. As Tfekalef and Shaffyrin were on a vifit among them, they fuddenly, and without provocation, ftruck Tfekalef on the head with a club, and afterwards ftabbed him with knives. They next fell on his companion, who defended himself with a hatchet with fo much refolution, that he effected a retreat to the hut. Bragin and Korelin, who were in the hut, had immediate recourfe to their firearms; but Kokoyin, being at a small distance, was furrounded by the favages and defperately wounded, before Ko relin could come to his affiftance. At last, however, his companion brought him off, though half dead. In a fhort time the natives furrounded the hut, which being furnished with mufket holes, ftood a fiege for four days without intermiffion. The A a 2 firearms firearms prevented the favages from ftorming it; but the Ruffians, on the other hand, found it impoffible to move from their cover on the most urgent occafions. At length, Shaffyrin and Kokovin, being a little recovered from their wounds, they all fallied out with their guns and lances, when three of the affailants were killed on the spot, and several wounded, and the reft were put to flight. During the fiege, the caps and arms of the fix Ruffans who had been fent to the pit-falls, were difplayed by the favages in triumph, and gave an affecting proof that these unfortunate men had fallen victims to their refentment. The natives retiring, the Ruffians dragged the baidar into the fea, and rowed out of the bay without moleftation. They foon after landed at a fmall habitation, and finding it unoccupied, they drew their veffel afhore; and armed with guns and lances, they traverfed the mountains, where they had left Kudyakof's party. As they approached Kalaktak, the village where thefe men had been ftationed, they fired from the heights, but no fignal being returned, they drew the melancholy conclufion, that this party had been butchered by the natives. They themfelves narrowly escaped the fame fate. Immediately on the report of the firearms, numerous bodies of the iflanders made their appearance, and closely purfued the Ruffians, who efcaped their fury only by the favour of the night.. Having reached a rock on the fea fhore, where they were fieltered, and could act on the defenfive, they made fuch good ufe of their firearms, that the affailants thought it prudent to retire. No fooner were they gone, than the miferable fugitives feized the opportunity opportunity of proceeding towards the spot where their veffel lay at anchor. They ran the whole night, without intermiffion or impediment, and at break of day, when they were about three verfts from the haven, they efpied a locker of the veffel lying on the fhore. Alarmed by this unexpected event, they retreated with precipitation to the mountains, whence they defcried feveral islanders in their canoes, but no figns of their own veffel. During that day, they kept themselves clofely concealed; but when night fet in, they defcended with anxious fear towards the haven, and the firft fights that faluted their view, were the fragments of the veffel on which they placed all their hopes, and mangled carcafes of their companions fcattered over the beach. Having collected what provisions they found left by the favages, they again returned to the mountains. The fubfequent day they scooped out a cavity, in which they might shelter themfelves, and covered it with a piece of fail. In the evening they paid another vifit to the beach, where they found the image of a faint, and a prayer book; but all the tackle and lading had been carried off, fave the facks for provifion, which being made of leather, the favages had ript them up, probably in fearch of iron, and had left them, with the provifion, as ufelefs. The Ruffians gladly collected thefe fupplies, and dragged them to their mountainous retreat, where they lived in the greatest mifery from the 9th of December, to the 2d of February following. To fill up their melancholy hours with fome labour that might tend to give them the pleasure A a 3 of |