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they saw many Chukchees, and at two places they saw
dwellings. The natives fled at the sight of the ship. At
3 o’clock very high land and mountains were passed.
With a very good breeze, they had been enabled to sail
164 miles, and an observation showed that they were in
latitude 64° 27′. According to this, Bering was out of
the strait and getting farther and farther away from the
American continent.
August 18, the wind was light and the weather clear.
On the 20th, beyond the Island of St. Lawrence, he met
other Chukchees, who told him that they had made
journeys from the Kolyma River westward to Olenek, but
that they never went by sea. They knew of the Anadyr
fort which lay farther to the south; on this coast there
dwelt people of their race; others they did not know.
After a storm on the 31st of August, in which the
main and foresail were rent, the anchor cable was broken
and the anchor lost, they reached the mouth of the
Kamchatka at 5 o’clock p. m., September 2, 1728.
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