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CHAPTER XIX
THE STAY ON BERING ISLAND.—FAUNA OF THE ISLAND.—
A RICH FIELD FOR STELLER.—HIS DESCRIPTIONS
IMMORTALIZE THE EXPEDITION.—THE SEA-COW.—ITS EXTERMINATION.—
NORDENSKJÖLD REFUTED.—PREPARATIONS FOR WINTERING.—
SAD DEATH OF BERING.—AN ESTIMATE OF HIS WORK.—CHIRIKOFF’S RETURN.—THE
CREW OF THE ST. PETER LEAVE THE ISLAND.—THE
GREAT NORTHERN EXPEDITION DISCONTINUED.—
BERING’S REPORTS BURIED IN RUSSIAN ARCHIVES.—
BERING HONORED BY COOK.
THE island upon whose shores Bering, after a voyage
of four months, was cast, was a high, rocky, and
uninviting country. The snowless mountains of
Plutonic rock, wild and jagged, arose perpendicularly out
of the sea, and deep ravines with seething mountain
streams led into the treeless interior.[1] There was snow
on only the highest peaks, and on this cold November
night the coast appeared to the shipwrecked
unfortunates in all its naked and gloomy solitude, and hence
[1] Dr. Stejneger, to whom the translator is indebted for various notes
and corrections of scientific interest, says: “The mountains which Steller
and his companions saw were not eruptive rocks. The whole island
consists of a more or less coarsely grained sandstone or
conglomerate,—Plutonic rock cropping out only in isolated spots. The mountain streams of
Bering Island are anything but ‘seething’; on the contrary, they are as a
rule very quiet.”
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