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Krusenstern.<br />

PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY. 359<br />

" The Japanese have vanquished me," exclaimed Krusenstern, on<br />

hearing the news of Mamiya Rinzo's success. In 1811, when the Russian traveller<br />

Golovnin was detained a captive by the Japanese Government, Rinzo and other<br />

Fig. 165. STRAIT OF YESO.<br />

Scale 1 : 660,000.<br />

to 64 Feet. 64 Feet and upward*.<br />

12 Miles.<br />

savants, who were already familiar with the ordinary methods of determining<br />

latitudes and longitudes, acquired from him the art of calculating longitudes<br />

directly by observation of the stars, and solar and lunar distances.

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