CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Preface ix 



Part I 

 The First Expedition, 1725-1730, and Its Setting 

 I The Geographical Knowledge of the North 

 Pacific Ocean at the Beginning of the 



Eighteenth Century 1 



II Bering's First Expedition, 1 725-1 730 6 



III Gvozdev's Voyage to America in 1732 .... 21 



Part II 

 The Second Expedition, 1733-1742 



IV Bering's Second Expedition, From Its Inception 



to the Beginning of the Sea Voyage .... 25 

 V The Log Book of Bering's Vessel, the "St. 

 Peter," and of Her Successor, the Hooker 



"St. Peter" 36 



VI Lieutenant Waxel's Report on the Voyage of 



the "St. Peter" 270 



VII The Journal of Chirikov's Vessel, the "St. 



Paul" 283 



VIII Chirikov's Report on the Voyage of the "St. 



Paul" 312 



IX The End of the Expedition 328 



Note to Accompany the Chart of the Voyage 

 of Bering and Chirikov from Kamchatka to 

 the Alaskan Coast and Return, 1741, by 

 the late ellsworth p. bertholf 330 



Bibliographical Note 349 



(Index to both volumes in Vol. II.) 



