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Aldan and Maya, but winter came on and his boats
were frozen in on the Yudoma. He started out on foot
by the familiar route across the Stanovoi Mountains to
Okhotsk, which place he reached after enduring great
hardship and suffering; but even here he found no
roof for shelter. He was forced to subsist on
carcasses and roots, and not until the spring fishing
began and a provision caravan sent by Bering
arrived, did he escape this dire distress. In the early
summer, Pissarjeff put in an appearance, and very
soon a bitter and fatal enmity arose between these
two men.
Spangberg was born in Jerne near Esbjerg in
Jutland (Denmark), probably about the year 1698. He
was the son of well-to-do parents of the middle
class. In the Jerne churchyard there is still to be seen
a beautiful monument on the grave of his brother,
the “estimable and well-born Chr. Spangberg;”
nothing else is known of his early life. In 1720, he
entered the Russian fleet as a lieutenant of the fourth
rank, and for a time ran the packet-boat between
Kronstadt and Lübeck, whereupon he took part in
Bering’s first expedition as second in command. In
1732, for meritorious service on this expedition, he
was made a captain of the third rank. He was an
able, shrewd, and energetic man, a practical seaman,
active and vehement, inconsiderate of the feelings of
others, tyrannical and avaricious. He spoke the
Russian language only imperfectly. His fame preceded
him throughout all Siberia, and Sokoloff says that many
thought him some general, incognito, others an
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