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pare everything that we required for the designated time.

Getting out of the bay with a light SE wind, we bore to
the NEN, and moved forward very slowly because we were forced
to contend with calms and light headwinds, and only on the
16th were we able to pass Cape Oriental [ East Cape ].

From here we wanted to undertake the survey of the
Asiatic shore, but frequent fog and the irregularity of winds
switching from the NW through the N to the E and blowing for
the most part very lightly, forced us to abandon this plan,
and we started to hold as far as possible toward the north.

To the American shore
On the 19th the fog cleared and we, being about 30 miles
from shore, sighted [Cape] Serdtse Kamen at SW 30˚. From it
extended southward along the shore a massive wide ice field,
which occupied the whole horizon toward the north. The depth
was 24 sazhens, the bottom, black silt. Being at too far a
distance from the ice, the captain ordered us to keep toward
shore. The depth did not decrease. When we neared the ice,
the roar of walruses was heard the whole night long. At dawn
we saw thousands of them lying on the ice. Besides that, we
saw a lot of driftwood. We were at latitude 67˚ 49' 42˚" and
longitude 195˚ 52' 37" E at that time. The ice was solid, and
extended in a large semicircle from the Asiatic coast to the
NE.

Seeing the impossibility of penetrating farther, and hav-
ing a lack of firewood, the captain ordered us to keep toward