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Finally, in 1738, Spangberg found it possible to
depart for Japan, and in two summer expeditions he
charted the Kurile Islands, Yezo, and a part of the
eastern coast of Nipon (Hondo), whereupon the
cartography of this part of the globe assumed an entirely
new appearance.
The expeditions to Japan, which employed four
ships and several hundred men, had exhausted all the
provisions in Okhotsk. It was again necessary to raise
large supplies in West Siberia. A demand was made
upon the government office in Tobolsk for 40,000
rubles. From the district of Verkhoiansk 50,000
poods of provisions, while in part from West Siberia
and in part from the Admiralty 20,000 yards of cloth
were received. From other very distant places oil,
hemp, and other necessaries were obtained. The
Admiralty despatched to Irkutsk and Yakutsk two naval
officers, Lieutenants Tolbukhin and Larionoff, to
superintend the transportation of these goods. The
number of laborers was increased to a thousand, the roads
were improved, more attendants were provided, the
Siberian authorities exhibited more energy than before,
new river-boats were constructed, and pack-horses were
collected from a large radius of country; by these
increased means it was possible to collect all
necessaries in Okhotsk by 1740. In the month of June the
ships for the American expedition, the St. Peter and
the St. Paul, were launched. They were two-masters,
80 feet long, 22 feet wide, and 9½ feet deep, rigged
as brigs, each of 108 tons burden, carrying 14 two
and three pound guns.
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