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(1889) Author: Peter Lauridsen
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astronomical determination, reached Europe, many
believed that this land was identical with Yezo. But as
De Vries had left some determinations of latitude and
longitude which showed that the island must be very near
Japan, some went even so far as to suppose that it was
contiguous to Nipon; indeed, Guillaume De l’Isle’s essay
attempted to prove this. Thus three lands were made
one, while De Vries’s Staaten Eiland and Kompagniland,
which could find no place in this series, were forced
eastward into the Pacific as large tracts of land separated
from Kamchatka-Yezo and from each other by narrow
straits. But this is not all. The Portuguese
cosmographer Texeïra had in 1649, in these same regions,
indicated a coast projecting far to the east toward America,
seen by Juan de Gama on a voyage to New Spain from
the Philippine Islands. This Gamaland was now
described as a continuation of Kompagniland. In Homann’s
Atlas, 1709, it is represented as a part of America, and
Guillaume De l’Isle varied on the theme in a different
way.[1]

Unfortunately these ideas held sway in the scientific
world when Bering, in 1730, returned. Furthermore,
scholars thought these ideas were confirmed by Swedish
prisoners of war who had returned from Siberia,
especially by the famous Tabbert, or Strahlenberg, as he was
later called, whose various imaginary chart-outlines had
been adopted in Homann’s Atlas, 1727, and in other West
European geographical works then in vogue.[2]

Bering returned. His sober accounts and accurate
maps, in which there was nothing imaginary whatever,


[1] See Maps II. and III.
[2] Note 33.

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