accounted for, 291
VII. Discoveries after leaving Cook's River. Island of St
Hermogenes. Cape Whitsunday. Cape Greville. Cape Barnabas.
Two-headed Point. Trinity Island. Beering's Foggy Island. A
beautiful Bird described. Kodiak and the Schumagin Islands. A
Russian Letter brought on Board by a Native. Conjectures
about it. Rock Point. Halibut Island. A Volcano Mountain.
Providential Escape. Arrival of the Ships at Oonalaschka.
Intercourse with the Natives there. Another Russian Letter.
Samganoodha Harbour described, 306
VIII. Progress Northward, after leaving Oonalashka. The
Islands Oonella and Acootan. Ooneemak. Shallowness of the
Water along the Coast. Bristol Bay. Round Island. Calm Point.
Cape Newenham. Lieutenant Williamson lands, and his Report.
Bristol Bay, and its Extent. The Ships obliged to return on
account of Shoals. Natives come off to the Ships. Death of
Mr Anderson; his Character; and Island named after him. Point
Rodney. Sledge Island, and Remarks on landing there. King's
Island. Cape Prince of Wales, the Western Extreme of America.
Course Westward. Anchor in a Bay on the Coast of Asia, 323
IX. Behaviour of the Natives, the Tschutski, on seeing the
Ships. Interview with some of them. Their Weapons. Persons.
Ornaments Clothing. Winter and Summer Habitations. The Ships
cross the Strait, to the Coast of America. Progress Northward.
Cape Mulgrave. Appearance of Fields of Ice. Situation of Icy
Cape, the Sea blocked up with Ice. Sea-horses killed, and used
as Provisions. These Animals described. Dimensions of one of
them. Cape Lisburne. Fruitless Attempt to get through the Ice
at a Distance from the Coast. Observations on the Formation
of this Ice. Arrival on the Coast of Asia. Cape North. The
Prosecution of the Voyage deferred to the ensuing Year, 338
X. Return from Cape North, along the Coast of Asia. Views of
the Country. Burney's Island. Cape Serdze Kamen, the Northern
Limit of Beering's Voyage. Pass the East Cape of Asia.
Description and Situation of it. Observations on Muller.
The Tschutski. Bay of Saint Laurence. Two other Bays, and
Habitations of the Natives. Beering's Cape Tschukotskoi.
Beering's Position of this Coast accurate. Island of Saint
Laurence. Pass to the American Coast. Cape Derby. Bald Head.
Cape Denbigh, on a Peninsula. Besb
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