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Fahrenheit] and that is why it was not so uncomfortable, upon
undressing, to sit near the fire until their clothes dried.
In the meantime, the sailors started sawing the drier logs.
Here was mostly pine wood [read spruce]; -------------------------
rarely larch or aspen. The officers, donning their kam-
leikas (as is called the shirts of sea lions' guts sewn with
a hood, used by all inhabitants of these regions for protec-
tion of the fur underclothing from dampness), got very little
wet. While the sailors were preparing the wood, they went
beyond the sandy hillocks bordering the shore to examine the
kind of soil behind them. Beyond these knolls, they saw a
wide swampy plain, on which (right near the knolls) were lo-
cated, lengthwise in their direction, three lakes of fresh
water joined by narrow cannals. The lakes ectended from NE 67[degree symbol]
to SE 24[degree symbol] and were about 30 sazhens wide. The plain extending
to the mountains in the interior of this land rises more toward
the north and ends there with a high summit near Cape Mulgrave
[west end of Mulgrave Hills]. Grown over with moss, the
mountains seemed, from a distance, as if consisting of bare
rock covered with snow in the hollows and at the summit. The
latitude of the summit from bearings was determined to be
67[degree symbol] 39' 24" and the longitude 195[degree symbol] 58'.

In the meantime, the wind shifted and started to blow
rather briskly from the NE. Having a direction away from the
shore, it soon turned back the sea waves, and the surf sub-
sided. Then our men hurried to load the vessels with wood,