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CHAPTER XVIII.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS.—TERRIBLE
HARDSHIPS OF THE VOYAGE.—STELLER’S FAULT-FINDING.
—BERING CONFINED TO HIS CABIN.—DEATHS ON
BOARD FROM EXHAUSTION AND DISEASE.—BERING
ISLAND DISCOVERED.—A NARROW ESCAPE.
THE St. Peter left the Shumagin Islands September 6,
and sailed southward to resume the direct course.
The weather was very bad, with alternating fogs, mist, and
storms. A west wind prevailed almost continuously.
Now and then a regular hurricane crossed their course.
If occasionally they had a favorable breeze, it seemed to
last but a few hours. “I know no harder, more fatiguing
life,” says one of the St. Peter’s officers, “than to sail
an unknown sea. I speak from experience, and with
truth can say that during the five months I spent on this
voyage, without seeing any place of which the latitude
and longitude had been fixed, I did not have many hours
of quiet sleep. We were in constant danger and
uncertainty.”
As a last resort, they even thought of returning to
America, or of reaching Japan. For several days they
were swept along by a storm. September 23, the second
death occurred, and on the 24th they again saw, to their
great astonishment, land toward the north. They were
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