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having sailed seven miles in this direction, he determined
to turn back. At 3 o’clock he announced, that as he
had now accomplished his task, it was his duty,
according to his orders, to return. His bearings were then
67° 18′ N. latitude, and 30° 19′ east of the Kamchatka
fort, or 193° 7′ east of Greenwich. In Du Halde, where
Bering himself gives his reasons, it is stated : “This was
Captain Bering’s most northerly point. He thought that
he had accomplished his task and obeyed orders, especially
as he no longer could see the coast extending toward the
north in the same way. (Surtout, parcequ’il ne voyait
plus que les terres continuassent de courier de même du côté
du Nord.”) Moreover, if they should go farther, he feared,
in case they should have adverse winds that they might
not be able to return to Kamchatka before the end of
the summer, and how were they to be able to pass the
winter in such a climate, liable to fall into the hands of a
people who had not yet been subjugated, and who were
human only in outward appearance.[1]
When Bering turned about, his command was to steer
south by west, half west. In this course they sailed with
the wind at a rate of more than seven miles an hour. At
9 o’clock in the morning, they saw a high mountain on
the right, where Chukchees lived, and to the left and
seaward they saw an island, which in honor of the day
they called Diomede.[2] This day they sailed 115 miles,
and reached latitude 66° 2′.
On August 17, Bering again passed the narrowest part
of the strait. The weather was cloudy, there was a fresh
breeze, and they sailed along the Asiatic coast, where
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