...to the harbor, water batteries were erected to prevent landing by boats, large magazines were constructed and filled with stores, a garrison was train... .... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...usively in the hands of the Portuguese and Spanish. Queen Elizabeth, while for political reasons refusing to give open recognition to the enterprise w... ...endish banqueted the Portuguese merchants, and related to them the most recent political intelligences that he had, and in turn they described to him ... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe... ... of ice that disputed his further passage northward. In the harbor was a small Russian village and garrison, and to this place the remains were taken ...