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CHAPTER VIII.
BERING’S PLANS FOR A SECOND EXPEDITION.—THE
GREATEST GEOGRAPHICAL ENTERPRISE EVER UNDERTAKEN.
ARCTIC exploration has a bewitching power over its
devotees. Bering and his companions did not
escape the enchantment. Hardly had they returned
from a five years’ sojourn in the extremest corner of the
world, when they declared themselves willing to start
out again. As they had met with so much doubt and
opposition from scholars,—had learned that the world’s
youngest marine lacked the courage to recognize its own
contributions to science, and, furthermore, as the
Admiralty thought it had given strong reasons for doubting
Bering’s results,[1] he proposed to make his future
explorations on a larger scale and remove all doubt, by
charting the whole of this disputed part of the globe.
April 30, 1730, only two months after his return, he
presented two plans to the Admiralty. These have been
found and published by Berch, and are of the greatest
importance in judging of Bering’s true relation to the
Great Northern Expedition. In the first of these
propositions he sets forth a series of suggestions for the
administration of East Siberia, and for a better
[1] Note 39.
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