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Updated: October 20, 2026
Perhaps one thousand Aleut hunters would be assembled. Two types of hunting boats were used the big 'bidarkie, carrying twenty or thirty men, and the little kayak, a mere cockle-shell.
Of the dozen Russians stationed here only four survived; and their hut was beset by a rabble of Aleuts drunk with vodka, drunk with blood, drunk with a frenzy of revenge. Cooped up in the hut, the Russians kept guard by twos till nightfall, when, dragging a bidarkie down to the water, they loaded it with provisions and firearms, and pushed out in the dark to the moan and heave of an unquiet sea.