Editing Otto von Kotzebue (section)

==Second voyage, 1823 to 1826==
In 1823 Kotzebue, now a captain, was entrusted with the command of an expedition of two ships of war, the main object of which was to take reinforcements to Kamchatka and patrol the northwest American coast to protect Russian settlements from the smuggling by foreign traders. A staff of scientists on board the Russian sailing sloop ''Enterprise'' collected much valuable information and material in geography, [[ethnography]] and natural history.<ref name="EB1911"/> Naturalist Eschscholtz again accompanied Kotzebue along with geologist [[Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann]], astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Preuss and physicist [[Emil Lenz]].{{sfn |Beidleman |2006 |page=55}}

The expedition left Kronstadt on July 28, 1823, and rounded Cape Horn on December 23. Kotzebue visited Chile and then sailed west through the Tuamotu Archipelago on the way to Tahiti. The expedition reached Matavai Bay, Tahiti, on March 14. Kotzebue met various members of the [[London Missionary Society]] before leaving the island on March 24.{{sfn |Te Rangi Hiroa |1953 |pages=79-80}}

Kotzebue reached [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky|Petropavlovsk]] in July 1824. That same year he visited [[Mission Santa Clara de Asís|Mission Santa Clara]] and noted the conditions of the ''[[monjerío]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last1=Schmidt |first1=Robert A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rKBAgAAQBAJ |title=Archaeologies of Sexuality |last2=Voss |first2=Barbara L. |publisher=Routledge |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-134-59385-9 |pages=43–47 |language=en}}</ref>'' Many positions along the coast were rectified, the [[Samoa|Navigator islands]] visited, and several discoveries made. The expedition returned by the [[Marianas]], [[Philippines]], [[New Caledonia]] and the [[Hawaiian Islands]], reaching [[Kronstadt, Russia|Kronstadt]] on July 10, 1826.<ref name="EB1911"/>

When he returned, Kotzebue was promoted to command of the fleet squadron at Kronshtadt, but he left the service in 1830 because of failing health.{{sfn |Postnikov |2007}} Kotzebue spent the last years of his life at his [[Triigi, Harju County|Triigi]] Manor near Kose. He died in [[Tallinn|Reval]] in 1846.

Both of Kotzebue's narratives: ''A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Bering’s Straits for the Purpose of exploring a North-East Passage, undertaken in the Years 1815–1818'' (3 vols. 1821), and ''A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823–1826'' (1830), have been translated into English.<ref name="EB1911"/>