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CHAPTER X.
DELAY OF THE EXPEDITION CAUSED BY THE DEATH
OF LASSENIUS AND HIS COMMAND IN THE ARCTIC
REGIONS.—DISSATISFACTION OF THE SENATE AND
ADMIRALTY WITH BERING’S WORK.
THE difficulties recounted in the preceding chapter
are alone sufficient to justify Bering’s nearly three
years’ stay in Yakutsk; but simultaneously many other
duties demanded his attention. It does not come within
the scope of this treatise to describe the investigations of
the Academical branch of this enterprise,—to portray
Müller’s and Gmelin’s services to botany, history, and
geography; they are of interest here only in their relation
to Bering. Especially in Yakutsk did these men give
him much to attend to. It devolved upon him now to
convey these gentlemen, in a manner fitting their station,
up or down the Lena, now to send La Croyère to Lake
Baikal or to the Arctic Ocean,—all of which was to be
done in a country principally inhabited by nomadic
tribes, with only here and there a Russian population
where there were government officials, and with no other
means of transportation than those secured for the
occasion. In Yakutsk, where the Professors stayed a long
time, their relations with Bering were very much
strained, principally, it would seem, on account of their
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