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TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.

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IN placing before the American public this book on Vitus Bering,
I desire to express my cordial thanks to those who by word
and deed have assisted me. I am especially grateful to Lieutenant
Frederick Schwatka, who, in the midst of pressing literary labors
consequent on his recent explorations among the cave and cliff
dwellers of the Sierra Madre Mountains, has been so exceedingly
kind as to write an introduction to the American edition of this
work. I feel confident that the introductory words of this doughty
explorer will secure for Bering that consideration from the
American people to which he is fairly entitled.

I find it a pleasant duty to acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr.
Leonhard Stejneger of the Smithsonian Institution, who has sent
me some valuable and interesting notes to the chapter on “The
Stay on Bering Island” (Chapter XIX). Dr. Stejneger’s notes are
of especial interest, for in the years 1882-’84 he spent eighteen
months on Bering Island in the service of the United States
government, the object of his expedition being to study the general
natural history of the island, to collect specimens of all kinds,
but especially to search for remains of the sea-cow. He wished
also to identify the places mentioned by Steller, the famous
naturalist of the Bering expedition, in order to compare his description
with the localities as they present themselves to-day, and to visit
the places where Bering’s vessel was wrecked, where the ill-fated
expedition wintered, and where Steller made his observations on
the sea-cow. The results of Dr. Stejneger’s investigations have
been published in “Proceedings of the United States National
Museum” and in various American and European scientific
journals.

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