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Arctic coast, the necessary supplies, which were to be
stored north of Obdorsk, were loaded on four rafts,
which, with a force of 30 men, accompanied Ofzyn.
On May 14, he received his Admiralty instructions from
Bering, and, saluted by cannon, the First Arctic
Expedition stood up the Irtish for the Polar seas.
Five days later, Bering, with the main command
and the Academists, left Tobolsk and took different
routes for Yakutsk, which had been selected as the
central point for the future enterprises of the
expedition. In October, 1734, he arrived at this place,
bringing with him a quantity of materials. The next spring,
Chirikoff came with the greater part of the supplies,
and during the year following, this dull Siberian city
was the scene of no little activity. On his arrival,
however, Bering found that no preparations whatever
had been made for him. In spite of instructions and
orders from the government, nothing had been done
toward charting the Arctic coast or for the
expediting of the heavily loaded transports on the way to
Okhotsk. Nor did Bering find that the authorities
were even kindly disposed toward him. Yet, in the
course of the next six months, he had two large ships
built for the Arctic expedition, and when his own
supplies arrived by way of the central Siberian
river-route, described in the first part of this work, these
vessels, together with four barges, were equipped and
furnished with provisions, and in June, 1735, were
ready for a start. These two ships—the sloop Yakutsk,
Lieut. Pronchisheff, first mate Chelyuskin, surveyor
Chekin, and about fifty men, and the decked boat Irkutsk,
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