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to Steller’s narrative, the St. Peter must have touched
America farther west than Yakutat Bay, and considers
it quite probable that their anchoring place must be
sought at one of the passages leading into Controller
Bay, either between Cape Suckling (which on Russian
maps is sometimes called Cape St. Elias) and Point
Le Mesurier, or between the islands Kayak and
Wingham. We shall soon see that this last supposition
is correct. O. Peschel has not ventured wholly to accept
Krusenstern’s opinion, but he nevertheless calls attention
to the fact that Bering Bay is not correctly located. He
fixes Bering’s landing place west of Kayak Island, and
contends against considering Mt. St. Elias as the
promontory seen by Bering, something which would
seem quite superfluous.[1]
This uncertainty is all the more striking, as, from
the beginning of this century, there have been accessible,
in the works of Sauer and Sarycheff, facts enough to
establish the identity of the island of St. Elias with the
present Kayak Island, and since the publication of
Bering’s own map, in 1851, by the Russian Admiralty,
there can no longer be a shadow of a doubt. The map
is found in the appendix of this work, and hence a
comparison between the islands of St. Elias and Kayak
is possible (Map IV). The astronomical situation of the
islands, their position with reference to the mainland,
their surroundings, coast-lines, and geographical
extension, the depths of the sea about both—everything proves
that they are identical; and, moreover, Sauer’s and
Sarycheff’s descriptions, which are quite independent of
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