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whatever for modifying the results arrived at by Baer,
Brandt, and Middendorff.[1]
Without this animal wealth it would have gone
with Bering’s expedition as it did later with the
unfortunate La Pérouse, whose monument has found a
place in Petropavlovsk by the side of Bering’s. It
would have been hopelessly lost on Bering Island.
None of the participants would have seen Asia again,
none would even have survived the winter 1741-42,
for when the St. Peter stranded, there were on board
only a few barrels of junk, a small quantity of groats,
and some flour. The flour had been lying in leathern
sacks for two years, and in the stranding had been
saturated with turbid sea water, and hence was very
unfit for food. How fatal, therefore, Waxel’s and
Khitroff’s opposition to Bering might have been.
It was the night between the 5th and 6th of
November that the St. Peter reached this coast. On the
6th the weather was calm and clear, but the crew
were kept on board from weakness and work, and
only Steller and Pleniser could go ashore with a few
of the sick. They immediately betook themselves to
examining the country, and walked along the coast
on either side. Was this an island, or was it the
mainland? Could they expect to find human
assistance, and could they reach home by land? After two
days of exploration, Steller succeeded in satisfying
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