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CHAPTER XIV.
PREPARATION’S FOR BERING’S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
TO AMERICA.—FOUNDING OF PETROPAVLOVSK.—
THE BROTHERS DE L’ISLE.
WE left Bering when, in 1740, he was about to
depart from the harbor of Okhotsk with the St.
Peter and the St. Paul, two smaller transports, and a
vessel to convey the scientists, Steller and La Croyère, to
Bolsheretsk. The objective point of the main
expedition was Avacha Bay, on the eastern coast of Kamchatka.
The excellent harbors here had been discovered by
Bering’s crew a couple of years previous. He had now
sent his mate, Yelagin, to chart the bay, find a sheltered
harbor there, and establish a fortified place of abode on
this coast. This work Yelagin completed in the summer
of 1740, and when in the latter part of September the
packet boats entered Avacha Bay, they found, in a
smaller bay on the north side, Niakina Cove, some
barracks and huts. A fort was built in the course of
the winter and the pious Bering had a church built
and consecrated to St. Peter and St. Paul, thus founding
the present town of Petropavlovsk. The place rapidly
became the most important and pleasant town of the
peninsula, although that is not saying much. In 1779,
the place was still so insignificant that Cook’s officers
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