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Island.[1] This correct view is now beginning to find its
way into American maps, where, in the latest works,
Cape St. Elias will be found in the proper place, together
with a Bering Haven on the northern coast of Kayak.[2]
[1] Bancroft, History of Alaska, p. 79, presents the same view: “The
identity of Kayak is established by comparing Bering’s with Cook’s observations,
which would be enough even if the chart appended to Khitroff’s journal had
not been preserved. At first both Cook and Vancouver thought it Yakutat
Bay, which they named after Bering, but both changed their minds. As late
as 1787 the Russian Admiralty college declared that the island Chukli
(Montague of Vancouver) was the point of Bering’s discovery, but Admiral
Sarycheff, who examined the journals of the expedition, pointed at once to
Kayak Island as the only point to which the description of Bering and
Steller could apply. Sarycheff made one mistake in applying the name of
Cape St. Elias to the nearest point of the mainland called Cape Suckling by
Cook.”—Tr.
[2] Note 61.
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