Before his departure, he reinstated the serjeant in the command of the place, and took with him the sub-lieutenant who had superseded him.

Captain King accompanied Captain Shmalelf to the entrance of Awatska river, and on Sunday, the 26th, attended him to church at Paratounea.

The church is of wood, and by far the best building in the country round about the bay.

It is ornamented by many paintings, particularly with two pictures of St.
Peter and St.Paul, presented by Beering, and which, in the real richness of their drapery, would carry off the prize from the first of European performances; for all the principal parts of it are made of thick plates of solid silver, fastened to the canvass, and fashioned into the various foldings of the robes.
The next day another hunting party was set on foot, under the direction of the clerk of the parish, who was a celebrated bear-hunter.

The produce was a female bear, beyond the common size, which they shot in the water, and found dead the next morning in the place to which she had been watched.