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A third voyage planned The Resolution and Discovery commissioned Expedition sails Omai taken on board Touch at the Cape of Good Hope Van Diemen's Land New Zealand The Friendly or Tonga Islands reached Acquaintance formed with Feenon His treacherous designs Cook's determined conduct checks the natives Visits Otaheite Omai shows his true character Astonishment of natives on seeing horses ridden Omai landed at Huaheine with his property His bad conduct and wretched fate Desertions at Ulietea Live stock landed Bolabola and other islands visited Unknown islands sighted Cook lands Natives receive him with deep respect Assist the watering party Name of Sandwich Islands given to the group Ships proceed to coast of America Natives come off at Nootka Sound Anchor in Prince William's Sound The ships enter Behring's Straits Turned back by the ice Anchor off Oonalaska Kind behaviour of the Russian authorities The expedition returns to the Sandwich Islands Sail round them, and come to an anchor in Karakavoa Bay Vast numbers of natives come off Cook supposed to be their god Rono Honours paid to him Ceremonies at a temple Ships put to sea Compelled to return Temper of the natives changed Attempts to coerce them Death of Captain Cook and several men His character Captain Clerke succeeds, and makes peace with the natives Ships sail in search of a passage round America Touch at Saint Peter and Saint Paul Courtesy of the Russians Ships again compelled to return by the ice Death of Captain Clerke Captain Gore takes command Sails for Macaohigh price obtained for seal-skins Commanders of French ships ordered to treat the Adventure and Resolution as neutrals Touch at the Cape of Good Hope Steer round Scotland, and reach the Nore 4th of October, 1780 Remarks on Captain Cook's discoveries Notice of his family.
This might be at Atka, where the finest otter hunters in the world lived, or on the south shore of Oonalaska, or in Cook's Inlet where the rip of the tide runs a mill-race, or just off Kadiak on the Saanach coast, where twenty miles of beach boulders and surf waters and little islets of sea-kelp provide ideal fields for the sea-otter.
But the sea was the lesser danger. Once away from the enemy, the four fugitives pulled for dear life across the tumbling waves ten miles the way they went, one account says to the main shore of Oonalaska. It was pitch dark.
This, with drift-wood, serves for fuel, for the island is entirely destitute of trees. They make another heap of the flesh, which, with the eggs of sea-fowls, preserved in oil, an occasional sea-lion, a few ducks in winter, and some wild roots, compose their food. Mr. Hunt found several Russians at the island, and one hundred hunters, natives of Oonalaska, with their families.
The tired-out sentinels must have fallen asleep at their places; for just as day dawned came a hundred savages, stealthy and silent, seeking the ship that had slipped out from Oonalaska.
Each of the ships was under a commander who had been to the islands before and dealt fairly by the Indians. Betshevin's ship with Pushkareff, the Cossack, reached Kamchatka September 25. On the 6th there had come to winter at the harbor a ship under the same Alexei Drusenin, who had met Pushkareff the year before on the way to Oonalaska.
Kadiak yielded as many as 6000 pelts in a single year; Oonalaska, 3000; the Pribylovs, 5000; Sitka used to yield 15,000 a year. To-day there are barely 200 a year found from the Commander Islands to Sitka. It may be imagined that Russian criminals were not easy masters to the simple Aleut women and children who were held as hostages in camp to guarantee a good hunt.
Korovin decided to hunt midway between Drusenin's crew and Medvedeff's. It is likely that the letters exchanged among the different commanders from September to December were arranging that Drusenin should keep to the east of Oonalaska, Korovin to the west of the island, while Medvedeff hunted exclusively on the other island Oomnak.
To the island ten miles off shore, Drusenin went himself, with Korelin, a wrecked Russian whom he had picked up on the voyage. On the way they must have passed all three mountains, that guard the harbor of Oonalaska, the waterfalls that pour over the cliffs near Kalekhta, and the little village itself where eleven men remained to build huts for the winter.
Before the mist could lift, the fugitives gathered up some provisions scattered on the shore and ran for their lives to the high mountains farther inland. And when daylight came they scooped a hole in the sand, drew a piece of sail-cloth over this, and lay in hiding till night. From early December to early February the Russians hid in the caves of the Oonalaska mountains.
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