Tales of An Old Sea Port a General Sketch of the History of Bristol Rhode Isla
Tales of An Old Sea Port a General Sketch of the History of Bristol Rhode Isla
Wilfred Harold Munro
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Having again adjusted the rigging, replenished our stores of wood and water, and put everything in the best VOYAGE . OF THE JUNO 121 possible trim for sea, I submitted to Governor Baranoff a project of an expedition to the southern coast of New Al- bion and California, which he readily accepted. My idea was to take on board fifty or sixty Kodiak Indians, with their canoes, for the purpose of catching sea-otter, those animals being very numerous on that coast. Everything in this new plan being a...greed upon and settled, we were to wait until the ist of October for the Indians, who were out on a hunting expedition, under the protection of two small vessels, and expected to return by the last of the month. While we were waiting, the Russian brig Maria arrived at the settlement. She was under the command of Andrew W. Maschin, a lieutenant in the navy, and had on board as passenger Nicholas Resanofif, a nobleman, who, after an unsuccessful embassy to Japan, returned to Kamtchatka en route to the posts on the Northwest Coast belonging to the Russian American Company, in which he was himself a large proprietor.
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