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Ket, Yenisei, Tunguska, and Ilim, through regions
where there was scarcely a Russian isba, on rivers which
were dangerous on account of hidden rocks and skerries,
and where progress was constantly interrupted by the
transporting that had to be done between the streams.
September 29, the expedition arrived at the town of
Ilimsk and had to pass the winter there. Meanwhile,
however, Lieut. Chaplin had, in the spring, been sent
in advance to Yakutsk, in order, at the voivode’s
(governor’s) to hasten the preparations for transportation in
the direction of Okhotsk, whither he was to send a
small command who were to fell trees and begin the
work of shipbuilding. Bering [1] himself went to Irkutsk
to obtain from the governor there information
concerning the climate and physical features of Eastern Siberia,
the modes of travel, and means of transportation in
that distant and little known country. Spangberg was
sent with mechanics and soldiers to the Kut, a
tributary of the Lena, for the purpose of cutting timber and
building vessels for the voyages to be made in the spring.
At Ustkutsk there were built in all fifteen barges
(about 45 feet long, 12 feet wide and 15 inches deep) and
fourteen boats. On May 8, 1726, Spangberg sailed for
Yakutsk, and somewhat later Chirikoff started off with
the rear. By the middle of June, the expedition was
gathered at the capital of East Siberia, which at that
time had three hundred houses. Here Bering remained
until the 16th of August, busily engaged in making
preparations for the difficult journey eastward. He
had made two thousand leathern sacks for transporting
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