VOYAGE

TO THE

P A C r F I C    O C E A N,

BOOK   VI.

TRANSACTIONS IN A SECOND EXPEDITION TO
THE NORTH, BY THE WAY OF KAMTSCHATKA,
AND IN RETURNING HOME, BY THE WAY OF
CANTON, AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
 

CHAP.    IIL

TranfaSiions at Petropaulowfka—Abmdant Supply
oJ Fifh—Death of the Carpenter's Mate^Ths
Ruffian Uofpitdput under tht Care of our Surgeons
—Supply of Rye Flour—Celebration of his Majejiy's
Birth'Day—^Twenty Head of Cattle Jent us—Dif-
ficidties in failing out of^ the Bay—Ruins of large
Villages - Eruption of a Volcano—Appearance of
the Country—Chepoonjkoi Nofs--KronotJ^oi NoJs
—Kamtjchatjkoi Nofs—Account of the ArSiic
Gull—Olutorfkoi Nofs-St. I'hadeus's Nofs-^Tfchu-
kotfkoi Nofs—Ifle of St. Laurence—The Eafl Cape
oJAfla dejcribed''Sight oJthe tij^o Coafls oJAfia and
America atthejame Inftant—ObflruStions from the
Ice—Some Sea-Horjes killed—Fruitlejs Attempts to
difcover a Paffage on the American Side—Captain
Gierke^s future Deflgns.

THE preceding chapter having terminated
with a narrative of the return of our party
from Bolcheretfk, and of the departure of Major
Vol. IV.—N° i9»            B                 Behm,