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large quantities from the fifth or sixth island. Through
these various expeditions there was collected vast,
although unscientific, materials for the more correct
understanding of the geography of eastern Asia, the Sea of
Okhotsk, Kamchatka, the Kuriles, and Yezo. Even
concerning the Island of Nipon (Hondo), shipwrecked
Japanese had given valuable information. Simultaneously,
the northern coast about the mouth of the Kolyma, had
been explored by the Cossacks Viligin and Amossoff.
Through them the first information concerning the Bear
Islands and Wrangel Island found its way to Yakutsk.
The Cossack chief Shestakoff, who had traveled into the
northeastern regions toward the land of the Chukchees,
accepted the accounts of the former for his map, but as
he could neither read nor write, matters were most
bewilderingly confused. Yet his representations were later
accepted by Strahlenberg and Joseph de l’Isle in their
maps.
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