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barbarous country, surrounded as he was with incapable,
uneducated, and corruptible assistants, pestered by
calumniators and secret or avowed enemies in every quarter, to
whom the government seemed more disposed to listen
than to him. More just than arbitrary, more considerate
than hasty, more humane than his position permitted, he
nevertheless had one important quality, an honest,
genuine, and tenacious spirit of perseverance, and this
saved the expedition from dissolution. The government
had sent him in pursuit of a golden chariot, and he
found more than the linch-pin. The realization,
however, was far from that anticipated by the government.
Many of the projects of the original plan were but
partially accomplished, and others were not even
attempted; but in spite of this, the results attained by
Bering and his associates will stand as boundary-posts
in the history of geographical discovery. Many of these
men sealed their work with their lives, and added a
luster to the name of Russia,[1] which later explorers have maintained.
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