"Excerpt from the book..."In the month of March of the year 1823, I was appointed by his ImperialMajesty Alexander the First, of glorious memory, to the command of aship, at that time unfinished, but named the Predpriatie (theEnterprise). She had been at first destined for a voyage purelyscientific, but circumstances having occurred which rendered itnecessary to change the object of the expedition, I was ordered to takein at Kronstadt a cargo to Kamtschatka
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