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exorbitant demands for convenience and luxury. Since
Bering would not and could not take upon himself to
transport them to Kamchatka as comfortably as he had
thus far conveyed them, especially not from Okhotsk, in
private and conveniently equipped vessels, and since the
Voivode likewise gave them but little hope of support,
both Gmelin and Müller made application for a release
from the expedition, and left to Krasheninnikoff and
Steller their principal task—the description of
Kamchatka.
In the year 1736, moreover, very discouraging news was
received from the Arctic seas. Pronchisheff had been
obliged to go into winter quarters at Olenek, and
Lassenius, who, August 2, had reached the rocky islet Stolb, in
the Lena delta, and on the 7th stood out of the mouth of
the Bykoff eastward, was driven by storm and ice into the
river Khariulakh, east of the Borkhaya Bay, where he
wintered, in a latitude of 71° 28′. The place was
uninhabited, and he built from driftwood a winter-house 66 feet
long, making four apartments, with three fireplaces, and
a separate kitchen and bath-room. As Lassenius hoped
to be able to continue the expedition during the two
succeeding summers, the rations were made considerably
smaller.
November 6, the polar night began, and shortly
afterwards nearly the whole crew were attacked by a deadly
scurvy, so violent that perhaps only Jens Munk[1] and his
fellow-sufferers on the Churchill River have experienced
anything worse. On the 19th of December Lassenius
died, and in the few succeeding months nearly all of his
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