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[Illustration: Route of
_M de Lesseps_
Consul of France,
_in the PENINSULA of_
KAMTSCHATKA,
_and along the GULF of PENGINA, from the_ Port of S^t. Peter & S^t.
Paul _as far as_ Yamsk.]




  TRAVELS
  IN
  KAMTSCHATKA,
  DURING THE YEARS 1787 AND 1788.

  TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
  M. DE LESSEPS, CONSUL OF FRANCE,
  AND
  INTERPRETER TO THE COUNT DE LA PEROUSE, NOW
  ENGAGED IN A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, BY
  COMMAND OF HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY.

  IN TWO VOLUMES.

  VOLUME I.

  LONDON:
  PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
  1790.




PREFACE.


My work is merely a journal of my travels. Why should I take any steps
to prepossess the judgment of my reader? Shall I not have more claim to
his indulgence when I have assured him, that it was not originally my
intention to write a book? Will not my account be the more interesting,
when it is known, that my sole inducement to employ my pen was the
necessity I found of filling up my leisure moments, and that my vanity
extended no farther than to give my friends a faithful journal of the
difficulties I had to encounter, and the observations I made on my
road? It is evident I wrote by intervals, negligently or with care,
as circumstances