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the water was still rising. We had succeeded rowing out not
far from shore when all the Indians appeared on it and sent
into us a whole cloud of arrows, which, however, caused no
harm whatsoever because we protected ourselves with walrus
skins traded from St. Lawrence islanders. We did not respond
to their shots and only tried to get away from their shots.
But when they started to shoot from guns, and the bullets began
piercing the skins, the captain ordered us to fire a fal-
conet ball over their heads. Hearing the whistle of the ball,
they quieted down for an instant, but soon, raising a horrible
cry, shot arrows and bullets at us again, and dashed toward
their baidars, pushing them into the water in order to pursue
us. Then the captain ordered us to aim the falconet at the
largest of them. The cannon fired, and the ball ripped out
the entire side of the baidar wounding one man. They then
abandoned further attempts to attack us, and retreated to
their abodes. We also left them in peace, and with the changed
current, arrived safely on the sloop after three hours.8

The "Discovery" was still not there, but we started im-
mediately to get ready for the further journey, that is, lifted
the longboat and filled empty barrels with water from a spring
on Chamisso Island.

On July 16 at 7 o'clock in the morning, we sighted our
sloop going toward the island. It stopped in the outer part
of the bay. Immediately we lifted anchor, and crossing the
strait, dropped it again beside it. At four o'clock in the