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A. Strindberg: P. J. v. Strahlenberg, in the Swedish Society for
Anthropology and Geography, 1879, No. 6.

4. V. Berch: The First Voyage of the Russians, pp. 2-5.

5. Bering’s report to the Admiralty, in The First Voyage of the
Russians, p. 14, together with his original account in Description
géographique, historique de l’empire de la Chine. Par le Père
J.
B. Du Halde. La Hague, 1736, IV., 562.

6. G. W. Steller: Beschreibung v. dem Lande Kamtschatka.
Frankfurt, 1774.

Krasheninikoff: The History of Kamtschatka. Glocester, 1764.

7. A species of bears-foot, Sphondylium foliolis pinnatifides.
Cleff.

8. Bering’s fear of the Chukchees may seem in our day to put
him in a bad light; but they who are familiar with the history of
this people know that at the time of Bering they were very warlike.
Both Schestakoff and Pavlutski fell in combat with them. Neue
nordische Beiträge
, I., 245.

J. Bulitsheff: Reise in Ostsibirien. Leipzig, 1858, p. 33.

9. The ship’s journal, kept by Lieut. P. Chaplin, is the basis of
this presentation. The first Voyage of the Russians, pp. 31-65.
Von Baer has used it to some extent, but no other West European
author.

In Bering Strait there are two Diomede islands. The boundary
line between Russia and North America passes between them. The
Russian island is called Ratmanoff or Imaklit, the American
Krusenstern or Ingalisek. See W. H. Dall: Alaska, Boston, 1870, p. 249.

10. That Bering himself was the author, would seem to be shown
by the fact that Weber who knew and associated with Bering, uses
verbatim the same expressions concerning the first expedition. See
Weber: Das veränderte Russland, III., 157.

11. Cook and King: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, III., 244.—
The only place where I have found any testimony to show that
America was seen from the Gabriel is a chart by J. N. De l’Isle:
Carte Génerale des Découvertes de l’Admiral de Fonte,” Paris,
1752, on which chart, opposite the Bering peninsula, a coast line is
represented with the words: “Terres vues par M. Spangberg en

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