We found in the Ochotsk Sea, besides the whale, salmon, trout, cod, eels, butts, and flounders. In addition to large sea fowl, which were very numerous, an immense number of little birds swarmed the air, some of them of beautiful plumage, and excelling in melodious notes. Many of them were so tame that they would light upon the ship's rigging and yards, and even descend to the deck to pick up crumbs, or little particles of food. CHAPTER XI. The Ocean still frozen over on the 22d of June.--On the 24th the Ice began to break up.--Whales appear.--Walrus follow the Ice.--Daily looking for Ships.--Report of our Wreck five hundred Miles below East Cape.--Method of sending News by the Natives.--Ships notified of our Condition.--How.-- The Resolution of Captains Jernegan and Goosman.--Arrival of two Ships off East Cape.--Natives first spy them.--Stir in the Settlement.--Happy Day of Deliverance.--Words feeble to express our Joy.--A fit Occasion for Gratitude and Thanks to God.--Preparations to go on board.--The Welcome of Captain Goosman.--Captain Norton with Captain Jernegan.--Crew collected.--Changed our native for sailor Dress.--Liberality of the Officers and Crews in furnishing Clothes.--A Review of the Past.--The Settlement visited.--Dinner.--Arrival at the Islands.--A Card. On the 22d of June, every thing, so far as the eye could reach, remained the same upon the ocean as in midwinter; and, to appearance, there was no immediate prospect that the ice would break up for some time to come. On the 24th, however, only two days afterwards, vast masses of ice had left the ocean, water appeared in every direction, though the shore along the coast was piled up with immense blocks and sheets of ice; and in the distance we could clearly perceive varied elevations of icebergs, differing in dimensions and form, scattered here and there upon the surface of the water. The scene presented to our view was that of an awful wreck or convulsion in nature, while those stupendous fragments exhibited the force and energy which had been displayed. The next day, the 25th, we saw whales close in to the edge of the ice on shore; they remained in the vicinity several days, and then went south again, or to some other part of the ocean, as we supposed, for their food. The ice having left this region more suddenly than common, greatly disappointed the usual expectations of the natives in taking a large number of walrus, which are highly prized among them. They serve about the same purpose with them as the reindeer does to the Laplander. The walrus follow the ice; and they are usually found in great abundance among it, and especially upon the edges of extensive tracts both of floating and field ice.