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the winter on Kayak Island; but on the coast of the continent from
Ice Bay to the Atna River there are also found Innuits, the
Ugalakmuts.—See Vahl: Alaska, p. 39. The people that Bering found on
the island must, according to Sauer, have been Chugachees,
Eskimos that live about Prince William’s Sound.
See also H. H. Bancroft, Native Races, San Francisco, 1882, Vol.
I.—Tr.
60. Gavrila Sarycheff: Achtjährige Reise im nordöstlichen
Sibirien, auf dem Eismeer und dem nordöstlichen Ocean. Leipzig,
1806, II., 57.—Sauer: An Account, etc., p. 198. “This
perfectly answers to Steller’s account of the Cape St. Elias of Bering,
and is undoubtedly the very spot where Steller landed, and where
the things above mentioned were left in the cellar. Thus it is very
plain that Cape St. Elias is not the southern point of Montague
Island, but Kay’s Island.”—G. Shelikoff: Erste und Zweite Reise.
St. Petersburg, 1793.
61. Zapiski, IX., 303.—The Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1882.
Maps.
62. Dall: Alaska and its Resources, p. 300.—Vahl in his work
on Alaska repeats Dall’s opinion in a somewhat milder form.
63. Krusenstern: Recueil de Mémoires Hydrogr., II., 72.—
Cook and King: Voyage, III., 384.—The Geodetic Coast Survey,
1882.
64. Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, under date of June 9, 1889, writes
the translator : “The locality indicated in Lütke’s map is correct.
It is consequently on the eastern side of the island. Steller’s
statement that it was on the northern side is easily explained as follows:
The valley where he landed opens toward the northeast, and the
corresponding valley on the other side of the island runs southwest;
this side consequently became the southern side. At the time of the
shipwreck the magnetic deviation was much more easterly than it is
now, so that by compass the direction of the eastern coast was much
more E.-W. than at present. Throughout his description of
Bering Island, Steller says north and south, where we would say east
and west.
“My visit to this locality in 1882, I have described in detail in
Deutsche Geographische Blätter (1885), where you will also find a
sketch map of it, as well as a plan of the house in which the
survivors wintered.
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