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- 53 - from [[Russia]] had spoiled, from there to go to [[Kadiak]] [Kodiak] and [[Unalashka]] [Unalaska] to obtain interpreters for North American [Alaskan Eskimo] languages and to get [[Aleuts|Aleuts]] with baidars [umiaks, or skin boats]; thereafter, to try to join the "Discovery," which intended to go directly to [[Kamchatka|Kam- chatka]] to be at [[Kotzebue Sound]] toward the end of June. When we left [[Port Jackson]], the winds were not very favorable, so that we reached 30° 54' south latitude and 160° 29' east longitude only on the 22nd of the same month. * Here, the wind changed and became completely favorable for our purpose. Our captain ordered us, by means of the tele- graph [semaphore telegraph] to inquire of Captain [[Vasil'ev, Mikhail Nikolayevich, 1770-1847|Vasilev]] if he should immediately follow the given direction. Receiving an affirmative answer, we tried to approach the "Discovery" to say farewell to our comrades and to throw over to them a pack of letters to our relatives and friends in the father- land, but our efforts were in vain. A rather heavy sea pre- vented nearing the necessary distance for this, and our letters fell into the sea, for which reason our relatives were deprived of the joy of receiving news from their near ones from the middle of the immeasurable ocean. Taking an opposite course from the "Discovery," we quickly drew farther and farther from each other with a rather fresh wind, and before the sun had set, lost our friend from sight. ---------------------------- *During the whole voyage we counted longitude from Greenwich.