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correct, lies Kayak Island, which is Cook’s Kayes Island,
having a latitude of 59° 47′ and a longitude of 56° 44′
east of Avacha, and hence the question is to prove that
this island really is the Guanahani of the Russians, that
is, St. Elias.
Cook is the authority for the opinion which has
hitherto prevailed; but surely no one can be more
uncertain and cautious on this point than he. He says:
“Müller’s report of the voyage is so abbreviated, and his
map is so extremely inaccurate, that it is scarcely possible
from the one or the other, or by comparing both, to
point out a single place that this navigator either saw or
landed on. If I were to venture an opinion on Bering’s
voyage along this coast, I should say that he sighted land
in the vicinity of Mt. Fairweather. But I am in no way
certain that the bay which I named in his honor is the
place where he anchored. Nor do I know whether the
mountain which I called Mt. St. Elias is the same
conspicuous peak to which he gave this name, and I am
entirely unable to locate his Cape St. Elias.”
It would seem that such uncertain and reserved
opinions were scarcely liable to be repeated without comment
or criticism. But nevertheless, the few reminiscences of
this chapter of Bering’s explorations which our present
geography has preserved are obtained principally from
Cook’s map; for the first successors of this great
navigator, Dixon, 1785, La Pérouse, 1786, Malespina,
1791, and Vancouver, 1792, through whose efforts the
northwest coast was scientifically charted, maintained,
with a few unimportant changes, Cook’s views on this
point. According to these views, Bering Bay was in
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