iption du Kamtschatka_, Amsterdam, 1770, ii. p. 292) states,
evidently from information obtained in Kamchatka, that the river
Nikul is called Feodotovchina after Feodot Alexejev, who not only
penetrated thither, but also sailed round the southern promontory of
Kamchatka to the River Tigil where he and his followers perished in
the way described by Mueller. ]

[Footnote 304: But we ought to remember that the oldest accounts of
islands in the Polar Sea relate to no fewer than four different
lands, viz, 1. The New Siberian Islands lying off the mouth of the
Lena and Svjatoinos; 2. The Bear Islands; 3. Wrangel Land; 4. The
north-western part of America. Contradictions in accounts of the
islands in the Polar Sea probably depend on the uninhabited and
treeless New Siberian islands being confused with America, which, in
comparison with North Siberia, is thickly peopled and well wooded,
with the small Bear Islands, with Wrangel Land, &c. ]

[Footnote 305: _Nouvelle carte des decouvertes faites par des
vaisseaux russiens aux cotes inconnues de l'Amerique, Septentrionale
avec les pais adiacentes, dressee sur des memoires authentiques des
ceux qui ont assiste a ces decouvertes et sur d'autres connoissances
dont on rend raison dans un memoire separe_ St. Petersbourg,
l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1758. ]

[Footnote 306: In this sketch of the discovery and conquest of
Siberia I have followed J.E. Fischer, _Sibirische Geschichte_, St.
Petersburg, 1768, and G.P. Mueller, _Sammlung Russischer
Geschichte_, St. Petersburg, 1758. ]

[Footnote 307: In the twentieth chapter of _Dreyjaehrige Reise nach
China, &c._, Frankfort, 1707. The first edition came out at Hamburg
in 1698. ]

[Footnote 308: Mueller, iii. p. 19. An account of Atlassov's conquest
of Kamchatka (_Bericht gedaen door zeker Moskovisch krygs-bediende
Wolodimer Otlasofd, hoofl-man over vyftig, &c._) is besides to be
found in Witsen (1705, _Nieuwe uitguaf_, 1785, p. 670) An account,
written from oral communication by Atlassov himself, is to be found
inserted in Strahlenberg's _Travels_, p. 431. Strahlenberg considers
Kamchatka and Yezo to be the same land. A history of the conquest of
Kamchatka, evidently written according to traditions current in the
country, is to be found in _Krascheninnikov_ (French edition of
1770, ii. p. 291). In this account 1698 and 1699 are given as the
years of Morosko's and Atlassov's expeditions. ]

[Footnote 309: Complaints were made, a