All winter there was cutting of logs in the
forest and by the spring of 1805 there were
eight substantial buildings, the space for 15
kitchen gardens had been cleared, the live-
stock brought on the ships were thriving, and
an air of prosperity pervaded the place.[26-1]
Surveys of the harbor were made by Captain
Lisianski who also made the first ascent of
Mt. Edgecumbe, and who then sailed for
Kronstadt, Russia, by the way of Canton,
with a cargo of furs for the China trade
valued at 450,000 rubles.[26-2]

[26-1] The livestock taken to Sitka in 1804 consisted of "Four
cows, two calves, three bulls, three goats, a ewe and a ram, with
many swine and fowls." (Lisianski, Voyage Round the World,
p. 218.)

[26-2] Lisianski made the surveys and named the islands of the
archipelago which had not been charted by Vancouver, of which
he says: "By our survey it appears that amongst the group
of islands, which in my chart I have denominated the Sitka Islands,
from the inhabitants, who call themselves Sitka-hans, or
Sitka people, are four principal ones, viz.: Jacobi, Crooze, Baranof,
and Chichagof." (A Voyage Bound the World, Lisianski, p. 235.)

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