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agree with those of Kayak, hut do not agree with those
of Montague Island, which is surrounded by far more
considerable depths that have none of the above described
characteristics, and which, moreover, has so great a
circumference that Khitroff could not possibly have
circumnavigated it in twelve hours, and finally,
considering the fact that everything which Steller gives as
signs that a large current debouched near his
anchorage finds an obvious explanation in the great Copper
or Atna estuary, in 60° 17′ N., then it will be
difficult to resist the conviction that Kayak is Bering’s
St. Elias, and that Vancouver’s Cape Hammond is his
Cape St. Elias.
Moreover, the traditions of the natives corroborate
this conclusion. While Billings’s expedition was in Prince
William’s Sound, says Sauer, an old man came on board
and related that every summer his tribe went on hunting
expeditions to Kayak.[1] Many years before, while he was
a boy, the first ship came to the island and anchored
close to its western coast. A boat was sent ashore, but
when it approached land all the natives fled, and not
until the ship had disappeared did they return to their
huts, where in their underground store-rooms they found
some beads, leaves (tobacco), an iron kettle, and some
other things. Sarycheff gives an account of this
meeting, which in the main agrees with Billings’s. These
stories also agree with Steller’s account.[2]
These facts have not before, so far as the author
knows, been linked together, but Sokoloff states,
without proof, however, that Bering’s landfall was Kayak
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