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CHAPTER IV.
BERING’S KNOWLEDGE OF SIBERIAN
GEOGRAPHY.—TERRORS OF TRAVELING IN SIBERIA.—THE EXPEDITION
STARTS OUT.—THE JOURNEY FROM ST. PETERSBURG
TO THE PACIFIC.
AND now the question is, what did Bering know of
these efforts which had been made during the
decades preceding his expedition, and which in spite of
their unscientific character, were nevertheless of such
great importance in order to be able to initiate one’s self
in the geography of eastern Asia? In the first place, the
surveyor Lushin, was a member of the Bering expedition,
and when Bering, in the summer of 1726, was sojourning
in Yakutsk, Shestakoff’s nephew, who had accompanied
his uncle on his expedition against the Chukchees,
became an attaché of Bering’s expedition, while the elder
Shestakoff had gone to Russia to collect means for the
contemplated military expedition. Furthermore, Ivan
Kosyrefski, who in the meantime had become a monk,
was also staying in Yakutsk, and his valuable report
preserved in the voivode’s (governor’s) office was now
surrendered to Bering. Thus we see that Bering was in
personal contact with the men, who, in the decade
preceding, were the chief possessors of geographical
knowledge concerning those northeastern regions.
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