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CHAPTER VII.
BERING’S WINTER AT THE FORT.—INDICATIONS OF AN
ADJACENT CONTINENT.—UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH FOR
THIS CONTINENT.—RETURN TO ST. PETERSBURG.—
GENERAL REVIEW OF THE RESULTS OF THE FIRST
EXPEDITION.
WHEN Bering on the 2d of September, 1728,
entered the mouth of the river Kamchatka, he
met the Fortuna, which had made a voyage around the
Kamchatka Peninsula. Who commanded the vessel on
this voyage, can not be ascertained.
Bering wintered at the fort. On the days that it was
light, the men were busy at work or receiving
instructions, and thus the winter passed without any
remarkable occurrences or misfortunes. Spangberg, however, was
obliged, on account of illness, to go to Bolsheretsk.[1]
At lower Kamchatskoi Ostrog, Bering became
convinced that there must be a large wooded country not
far to the east. The waves were more like those of a
sea than of an ocean. The driftwood did not indicate
the flora of eastern Asia, and the depth of the sea grew
less toward the north; the east wind brought
drift-ice to the mouth of the river after three days, the
north wind, on the other hand, after five days. The
[1] A port on the southern coast of Kamchatka.
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