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[Karl Karlovich Hillesem]	Helinsgem	(This is K. K. Hill-
		sen) [Good Intent]

Pilots:
[Mikhail Rydalev]	Rydalev	[Discovery]
[Vladimir Petrov ]	Petrov	[Good Intent]

Astronomer
[Pavel Tarkhanov]	Tarkhanov

Naturalist
[Fedor Shtein]	Shtein

The Voyages of 1820

Captain Vasilev, with the sloop entrusted to him, arrived
safely at Kamchatka. He sent Cap. Lieut. Shishmarev to Una-
lashka [ Unalaska ] Island to take on interpreters, instructing
him to sail from there to the shores of America to the sound
described by Lieutenant Kotzebue in 1816.

On June 27, 1820, Cap. Vasilev left the harbor of Petro-
pavlovsk and made his way toward Bering Strait. Near St. Law-
rence Island he sighted an American brig [the Pedler] and upon
questioning it, learned that it had come here from the Sand-
wich Islands [ Hawaiian Islands] to buy furs from the Chukchi.
On June [July] 16, Cap. Vasilev arrived at Kotzebue Sound where
he found Cap. Lieut. Shishmarev, who had been at anchor near
Chamisso Island for five days.

Captain-Lieutenant Shishmarev reported to Cap. Vas.,
that on June 32d he had arrived at Unalashka Island and re-