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route as indicated on Müller’s map is an impossible one.
This much, however, seems to be irrefutable: shortly
after having crossed the Chukchee peninsula in a
southerly direction, he came to a sea, and this sea could be no
other than Bering Sea.[1] Moreover, it appears from the
account, that he was on his return to the fort. Müller
goes on to say: “From here he sent a part of his men in
boats, whither he himself with the majority of the party
proceeded by land, following the shore, which at this
place extended toward the southeast. Those in boats
were so near the shore that they reported to him every
evening. On the seventh day, the party in boats came to
the mouth of a river, and twelve days later, to the mouth
of another. At about seven miles from this point there
extends eastward far into the sea a headland, which is
first mountainous, but then flat, as far as the eye can
reach. This headland is probably what induced Captain
Bering to turn back. Among the mountains on this
promontory there is one which, as already noted, is by the
natives of Anadyrskoi Ostrog called Serdze Kamen.
From here Pavlutski started for the interior.” On this
loose reasoning rests Serdze Kamen,—a process of
reasoning which attempts to show clearly that this headland
must be a point on the Pacific coast, and that it must
have lain many days’ journey west of Bering Strait.
But how is it possible, that Müller could have been so
confused as to make such strange blunders? The case
could not thus have presented itself to him. On the
basis of Deshneff’s journey and Pavlutski’s cruise, he
formed in his imagination a picture of northeastern
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