tangeBo1;task before us; months wxul elapse before thei' completion, and then it was questionable whether ourlitt le band would ever be reunited. Where and when, if at all, we were to meet again, the great Disposer alone knew.  .
The day was unexceptionable, warm and pleasant, and the atmosphere so pure and transparent that most distant objects loomed up with remarkable distinctness. Avatcha, Villenchinski, and Roselskoi stood forth in all their majesty, attired in most gorgeous array of blue and silver, cleaving the bright blue firmament with their towering crests. The grasscovered slopes of the adjoining shore, dotted with rich green clusters of foliage, were yet damp with the morning's dew, ewhich the slanting rays of the sun converfed into myriads of sparkling gems, all of which, together with every massive cliff and fantastic turret of rock, was reflected in the unruffled water with a distinctness that rivaled the reality. All nature seemed to have conspired in rendering this, our.last glimpse at Avatcha Bay and its surroundings, unsurpassable in beauty. Even the water-fowl, as if by preconcerted arrangement, approached nearer to display their brilliant plumage, and seals, usually shy, raised their spotted heads out of the water within stone-throw of our"craft, and with their large, soft eyes seemed to bid us Godspeed. But a gentle breeze,barely strong enough to swell our white sails, aided:by a good tide, soon bore us beyond: this enchanting scene,-and, before many hours had elapsed, we were once more on the mighty deep, enveloped in one of the dense fog-banks so common to this coast.
We missed the presence of our former companions very much for some days, but by degrees became reconciled to the new order of things, and settled down to the old daily routine of amusements.
For days the fog continued without cessation, sometimes lighting up sufficiently at noon to allow the captain to get an observation, but we had to depend mainly upon the logline and compass to judge of our whereabouts. Upon the Kamtchatkan coast this kind of navigation is very uncertain, owing to strong, trickish currents, which in p.very short timn sweep a vtessel entirely out of her reckoning, To be on the
- safe side, we kept pretty well out at sea until we had cleared the lower end of K4ntchatka, when .the brig was:8oded for
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