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CHAPTER VI.
THE TASK ASSIGNED BY PETER THE GREAT
ACCOMPLISHED.—HISTORY OF THE CARTOGRAPHY OF EAST
SIBERIA.—CAPTAIN COOK’S DEFENSE OF BERING.
BERING turned back because he felt convinced that
he had sailed around the northeastern corner of
Asia, and had demonstrated that in this part of the
earth the two great continents were not connected.
The third point in his orders was of course dropped,
for along the Siberian coasts of the Arctic sea, he could
expect to find neither European colonists nor ships;
hence, further search with this object in view would be
vain. He had a very clear idea of the general outline
of eastern Asia, and this knowledge was based upon the
facts of his own voyage, the information he had
obtained in Yakutsk about Deshneff’s expedition from
Kolyma to Anadyr, and upon the account which the
natives gave of the country and of their commercial
journeys westward to Olenek.
He was, moreover, convinced that he had given the
search for a Northeast passage a rational foundation,
and his thoughts on this subject are found clearly
presented in a correspondence from St. Petersburg to a
Copenhagen periodical, Nye Tidende, in 1730, whence
the following: “Bering has ascertained that there really
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