He kept an agent at Petropavlovsk and came there in person once a year.

In February he left St.Petersburg for London, whence he took the Red Sea route to Japan.

There he chartered a brig to visit Kamchatka and land him at Ayan, on the Ohotsk Sea.

From Ayan he went to Yakutsk, and from that place through Irkutsk to St.Petersburg, where he arrived about three hundred and fifty days after his departure.

I met him in the Russian capital just as he had completed the sixth journey of this kind and was about to commence the seventh.