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In the harbor and on the Sea of Okhotsk there was
now quite a respectable fleet of eight or nine ships,
all built by Bering. The Arctic coasts had been
charted through his efforts. Spangberg had with great
success completed his task, and had been sent by
Bering to St. Petersburg to render a report. Bering’s
own force, which consisted of 166 men, besides 80
engaged in transporting, was now collected in Okhotsk.
The astronomical department under La Croyère and
the scientist Steller also arrived, and finally Bering
had the satisfaction of seeing his worst enemy removed.
In August, 1740, Pissarjeff was discharged, and poor
Antoni Devier, first a cabin boy, then successively
aid-de-camp, general, and chief of police in St. Petersburg
—one of Peter the Great’s most trusted companions
in arms, but banished through the hatred of
Menshikoff—became his successor as harbor-master in
Okhotsk.[1]
In the middle of August the packet-boats, the
galley Okhotsk, and a double sloop containing the
scientists were ready to sail for Kamchatka. Then
Spangberg quite unexpectedly arrived. On his way
home he had received a counter order. The
authorities in St. Petersburg commanded him to repeat the
expedition to Japan. This gave Bering some extra
work in the way of letters and orders, so that the
vessels under Bering’s and Chirikoff’s commands did
not leave port until the 8th of September. They
were supplied with provisions for twenty months, and
their temporary destination was Avacha Bay on the
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