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OF THE

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES

OF

FOUR RUSSIAN SAILORS,

Who were Cast away in the desert Island of East-Spitzbergen.

HE truth of these adventures is sufficiently authenticated. When these unfortunate sailors first arrived at Archangel, they were examined apart by Mr Klinstadt, Chief Auditor of the Admirality of that city, who minuted down all the particulars, which exactly correspond with each account. Mr Le Roy, Proffessor of History in the Imperial Academy, some time after sent for two of the men, viz. Alexis Himkof, his godson, to Petersburgh, from whose mouths he took the following narrative, which also agreed with Mr Klinstadt’s minutes. The original was published in the German language, at Petersburgh, in the year 1769, and transmitted from thence to the ingenious Mr Blanks, who, with several other Members of the royal Society, were