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Expedition, but this did not deter him, in 1750, from
ascribing to himself, on the basis of this same map and
an accompanying memoir, Bering’s proposition, nor from
publishing an entirely perverted account of Bering’s
second expedition. He clung to all of his brother’s
conjectures about Gamaland, Kompagniland, and Staatenland
as well as Jeço, although they were based on very
unreliable accounts and the cartographical distortions of several
generations. On the other hand, he most arbitrarily
rejected all Russian accounts of far more recent and
reliable origin, so that only Bering’s and part of Yevrinoff’s
and Lushin’s outlines of the first Kuriles were allowed to
appear on the official map. He would rather reject all
Russian works that could be made doubtful, than his
brother’s authority, and even in 1753, over twenty years
after Spangberg’s and Bering’s voyages, he persistently
sought to maintain his brother Guillaume’s and his own
unreasonable ideas concerning the cartography of this
region. It was in part this dogged persistence in
clinging to family prejudices that robbed Spangberg of his
well-earned reward and brought Bering’s last expedition
to a sad end.
When the second Kamchatkan expedition left St.
Petersburg, a copy of De l’Isle’s map was given to Bering as
well as to La Croyère. De l’Isle wrote the latter’s
instructions—ably written, by the way—and it was a
result of his efforts that the Senate ordered Bering and
Chirikoff to consult with La Croyère concerning the
route to America,—a very reasonable decree in case he
had been a good geographer. As it was, the order simply
meant that they were to go according to the regulations
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