ess, nay the
most beneficial events. In addition to what is recorded in this
voyage, we may mention an evidence of it in the case of Captain
Krusenstern's last arrival among them, which happened sooner than they
had looked for, notwithstanding his having previously intimated it. On
the appearance of his vessel, the people immediately concluded it was
an enemy, and some families began to fly with their effects to the
neighbouring mountains. To them it seemed more natural, that some
hostile power should send a vessel half round the globe in order to
conquer a miserable spot, whose only riches was a few dried fish, and
where a crew could scarcely subsist for two months, than that the ship
in sight should belong to a friend whose arrival they had been
instructed to expect. Nor were their fears quieted, till the solemn
and strongly urged opinion of the soldier on duty, who, from his
having been a companion of Captain Billing's, had the reputation of
much knowledge in such matters, induced them to believe, that the form
and rigging of the ship could be no other than those of their old
acquaintance the Nadeshda!--E.

[37] The singular personage here spoken of, was living near Saint Peter and
Saint Paul in 1805, when Captain Krusenstern arrived there. He was at
that time eighty-six years old, and had but lately obtained his
liberty from the present emperor, who, besides other bounty, granted
him a sum of money to cover his travelling expenses, if he chose to
return to St Petersburg. The old man, however, was unable to bring his
mind to undertake the journey, or even to venture the sea with
Krusenstern; and in all probability, therefore, would end his days in
the land of his captivity. We learn from the same authority, that
Iwashkin had been banished in consequence of a report, apparently an
unfounded one, that he had been engaged in a conspiracy against the
Empress Elizabeth; and he is said to have been afterwards refused a
pardon by Catharine, because he had been accused of murdering a man in
the heat of passion. But for this circumstance, according to K., "the
terms in which he is mentioned in Cook's voyage are such, as would not
fail to meet with attention in Russia." These few additional
particulars may add to whatever of interest is felt in Captain Kind's
account of this exile. And even thi