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Journey of the sloop Good Intent to explore the Asiatic and American shores of Bering Strait, 1819 to 1822. Part one
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we constantly heard shots from the "Discovery," but later, we did not receive answers to ours. The fog separated us. On this day it cleared, and we again saw the dismal shores of America in these latitudes, but our comrade was not there. Meanwhile we reached latitude 69°. We often encountered solid fields of thick ice. Attempting to keep as far north as possible, we picked our way into every clearing between them, and reaching the mentioned latitude, encountered solid ice taking up the whole horizon, extending to the north. We turned back hoping to find the "Discovery." Until the 25th, we had daily fogs around midday, but clear sky in the morning and evening. We could see nothing except the long and unchanging spit extending along the shore for a few miles between Capes Lisburne and Mulgrave, and on it a small settlement of Americans. At all times we had a strong NE current.
On the 28th, we reached Cape Mulgrave, the place of our separation with the "Discovery," which was not to be seen. Again, we turned back, and here a terrible storm from the SW overtook us, which contined until the 31st.10 During all this time a thick wet snow fell so that the men could not shovel it off the deck. On that day it started to abate and turned to the NE. The snow stopped, and in its place came freezing of seven or more degrees. All the rigging was iced and moved with great difficulty in the blocks. The sails were completely stiff so that in unreefing, the men had blood coming from under their fingernails. This situation cruelly exhausted our
Journey of the sloop Good Intent to explore the Asiatic and American shores of Bering Strait, 1819 to 1822. Part three
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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 kamleikas (as is called the shirts of sea lions' guts sewn with a hood, used by all inhabitants of these regions for protection 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 located, 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 subsided. Then our men hurried to load the vessels with wood,