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The following day they fcoopqd out a cavity at the.
foot of a mountain fituated about three verfts from the
haven, and covered it with a piece of a faiL In
evening they returned to the haven, and found there
image of a faint and a prayer book; all the tackle and
lading were taken away, excepting the facks for provifion,
Thefe facks were made of leather : the natives had
ript them up^ probably to fee if they contained any iron,
and had left them, together with the provifionj behind
as ufelefs. The Ruffians collected all that remained, and
dragged as much as they were able to carry into the
mountains to their retreat, where they lived in a very
wretched ftate from the 9th of December to the ad of
February, 1764.
Mean while they employed themfelves in making a
little baidar, which they covered with the leather of the
facks*    Having drawn it at night* from the mountains t<j
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the fea, they rowed without waiting for break of day
along the Northern coaft of Unalafhka, in order to reach
TrapefnikofPs vefiel, which, as they had reafon to think^
lay at anchor feme where upon the coaft. They rowed
at fome diftance from the Ihore, and by that means pair-
ed three habitations wiperceiyed. The following
they obferved at fome diftance five iflanders in a
 ijpoij feeing  t^em  made  to Makufbinfk, before
which