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Title: Captain Cook's original voyages round the world, performed by royal authority : containing the whole of his discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c., with memoirs of his life, and particulars relative to his unfortunate death
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Cook, James, 1728-1779
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Woodbridge (East Suffolk) B. Smith
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
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haw,which was now expected, it might not fallon our heads. At noon, in latitude 52 de^.44 min. longitude 1.39 cleg, the entrance ofAwatska Bay, bore N. W. The mouth ofit opens in the direction of N. N. W. Onthe S. side, the land is moderately high,rising to the r.orthward into a bluff-head.Three renia-ka!>le rocks lie in the channelbetween tlu ?n, not tar from the N. E. side;and, on the ojjposife side, a single rock ofconsiderable size. At three oclock, P. M.We stood into the bay, with a fair windrrom the southward, having from twenty-two to seven fathoms soundings. There isa look-out house on the north-head, used asa light-house, when any of the Russianships are expected upon the coast. It hada flag-staff, but we could not perceive anyperson there. Having passed the mouth ofthe bay, which extends about four miles inlength, a circular bason presented itself oSobour twenty-five nnles in circumference ;in this we anchored about four oclock ;fearing to run foul of a shoal mentioned by
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AND ROtJND THE WORLD. ^ol 3Iuller to lie in Jlie channel. Grrat qitanti- a suspicious spot,,in orJer to press with lesstit-s ut loi)>e ice (liiited vviih the tule in the urifj^ht upon it, he caine upon a seroud l>e-luiihiie (»f the boy, Imt the shores were iore he, could stop huiiselt., which brokei)h)oked up with it. Plenty of wihl tov^ I, under him, and in he lell. Foitunately heof various Uinch, uere seen; also htige rose clear of the ice; and a man who was alliifhls of Gretiilaiul pistons, tosyelher with little way behind with a boat hooU, t!ir<»\v-ravens and eaj^les. We examined every iny it out, the Captain, by that means wascorner of the bay, with our glasses, in order enabled to get upon firm ice again, iheto discern the town of St. Peter and St. nearer we ajtproached the shore, we foundPaul, whicl», from the ac<?oiints we had re- the ice still more broken. The sight of a<eived at Oonalashka, we supposed to be a sieciye advancing towards us, however, af-place

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