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and a related massive earthquake struck Hokkaido. On January 19 1780, a tsunami deposited his ship, the Natalia, a quarter-mile inland. The survivors returned to Russian-controlled Kamchatka by Aleutian-style sea kayaks. He ceased further attempts to return to the Kurils and Hokkaido after Catherine the Great declared that the Ainu no longer had to pay the yasak,

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