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teeth, to snap off a hand with one bite as it happened a few
years before to an Unalashkan toion [leader]. Seeing the im-
possibility of landing on the spit, Mr. Lazarev went along
the shore to find another suitable place, but everywhere the
banks rose perpendicularly above the water, and the surf did
not permit approaching them. Under these circumstances they
were obliged to be satisfied with what they could see from
the tender. The island is about three miles in circumference
and forms a round mountain of clay and rocky soil, covered in
places with thick layers of congealed lava. On top is a crater
constantly spewing a black column of smoke. Nature does not
provide anything from the plant kingdom here except moss. The
Unalashkan and Umnak Aleuts often come here to hunt sea lions,
whose meat and fat they use for food and the guts for kamleis
[waterproof coats], whiskers for the decoration of their wooden
hats, bones for arrows and for fuel [sic] instead of wood, and fin-
ally, the skin to cover their baidars.

Noticing the approaching fog, Mr. Lazarev abandoned his
fruitless attempts to land on the island and started back to
the sloop, which soon disappeared from him, but following
the given direction, upon approaching he could distinguish
the direction clearly from the noise of the shots, and aim-
ing toward it, as we have seen, safely reached the sloop.

Continuing light changeable breezes brought us only on
the third to the entrance of Captains Bay on Unalashka, which
we, however, did not dare enter because until Amaknak Island