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different from Ukamok, and regardless of the fact that
for these reasons he restored St. Stephen on his map,
Lieutenant Sokoloff, who most recently, in Russian
literature, has treated Bering’s voyage to America, has
wholly disregarded Krusenstern’s essay, and says that
St. Stephen is identical with Ukamok. Sokoloff’s essay
is very superficial, and, compared with Krusenstern’s
weighty reasons, is based on mere supposition. But,
although the map of the North Pacific, in the Russian
Admiralty (1844), has a Tumannoi Island (that is, Foggy
Island, St. Stephen) somewhat northeast of Ukamok, it
must be admitted that, until the United States
undertakes a new and careful survey of the Aliaska peninsula
and its southern surroundings, this question can not be
thoroughly decided, probable as it may be that Bering
and Krusenstern are both right.
August 3, the voyage was continued toward the
northwest. In a latitude of 56° (according to Steller) they
saw the high snow-capped mountain peaks of the Aliaska
peninsula in a direction N. N. W. by W., but on account
of stormy and foggy weather they sought, with an easterly
wind, to get back into their main course. Thus they
reached, August 4, the Jefdokjejefski Islands in a
direction S. S. E. ¾ by E., at a distance of twenty miles from
55° 45′ N. These form a group of seven high and rocky
islands, which on Russian maps still bears the same name,
but in West Europe this name has been displaced, and
they are usually called the Semidi, or Semidin, Islands,
the name of the largest of the group.
On August 7, they found themselves south of the
Jefdokjejefski Islands. But now misfortunes began to
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