the position and extent of Shelatskoi Noss, commonly called the N.E. Cape. Accordingly, he furnished him with a commission for this purpose, with instructions to proceed to Nishney Kolymsk, where the expedition was preparing under Baron Wrangél. Barnaouli, it should be observed, is in lat. 53° N., long. 84° E., and Nishney Kolymsk in lat. 68° N., long. 164° E.; consequently, in this commission, General Speranski appears to have afforded complete indulgence to the travelling propensities of his new English acquaintance from whose narrative we make the following extract:
“We reached fifty-five miles with the same dogs, and put up for the night at a Yukagir hut. Resumed next morning with increased cold, though calm weather, and reached Nishney Kolymsk at noon, amid 42° of frost,according to many spirit thermometers of Baron WrangéIs, on the 31st Dec. 1820, after a most tedious, laborious, and to me perilous journey of sixty-one days, twenty of which were passed in the snow, without even the comfort of a blanket; nor had I even a second coat, or parka, nor even a second pair of boots, and less clothing than even the guides and attendants of the poorest class. I could not therefore but feel grateful for my safe arrival at such a season of the year, in such intense cold, and with only the upper part of my nose at all injured. I met, at Nishney Kolymsk, the baron and a midshipman. It waa the last day of the old year; and in the present enjoyment of a moderate meal, a hearty welcome, and excellent friends, I soon forgot the past, and felt little concern for the future. Quarters were appropriated to me in the baron’s own house; and with him, on the shores of the Frozen Sea, I enjoyed health and every comfort I could desire.”
Commander Cochrane next proceeded to the country of the Tchuktchi, a people inhabiting the tract which forms the north-eastern corner of Asia; his account of whom is one of the most interesting portions of his narrative. From thence he returned to Kolymsk, and ultimately pursued his journey, by Omekon, and across the sea of Okotsk, to St. Peter and St. Paul, in Kamschatka, where it was his happy fortune to centre his hitherto rambling affections in an amiable native lady, to whom he was united on the 8th Jan. 1822. After making a tour of pleasure through the Kamschatdale peninsula, he became fully aware of the impracticability of following up his original plan. In July, 1822, he sailed for Okotsk; and from that post, actually travelled with his bride across Siberia to St. Petersburg. On repassing the Ural
