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the St. Peter’s journal, coincide exactly with the journal’s
references to the island of St. Elias. Sauer says that the
island, from its most southerly point, extends in a
northeasterly direction (“trend north 46° east”), that it is
twelve English miles long and two and a half miles
wide, that west of the island’s most northerly point there
is a smaller island (Wingham), with various islets nearer
the mainland, by which a well-protected harbor is formed
behind a bar, with about seven feet of water at ebb-tide,
—hence just at the place where Khitroff, as we have
already seen, found an available harbor for the St. Peter.
The journal, as well as Steller, describes St. Elias as
mountainous, especially in the southern part, thickly
covered with low, coniferous trees, and Waxel particularly
mentions the fact that off the coast of the island’s
southern point, Bering’s Cape St. Elias, there was a
single cliff in the sea, a “kekur,” which is also marked
on the map. Sarycheff and Sauer speak of Kayak Island
as mountainous and heavily timbered. Its southern
extremity rises above the rest of the island and ends very
abruptly in a naked, white, saddle-shaped mountain. A
solitary cliff of the same kind of rock, a pyramid-shaped
pillar (“kekur,” “Abspringer”) lies a few yards from
the point. Cook, too, in his fine outlines of Kayak
Island, puts this cliff directly south of the point. If we
then consider that the true dimensions of Bering’s island
plainly point to Kayak, that his course along the new
coast is possible only on the same supposition that the
direction in which Bering from his anchorage saw Mt.
St. Elias exactly coincides with this mountain’s position
with reference to Kayak, that the soundings given by him
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