3'1'Lo EUSSIAN EXPLORATIONS, 1725-1743. 



VITUS BERING: 



THE DISCOVERER OF BERING STRAIT. 



BY 



PETEE LAUEIDSEN, 



Mbmbeb op the Council of the Royal Danish Geographical Society, 

 Editor of Jens Munk's "Navigatio Septentrionalis.' 



Revised by the Author, and Translated from the Danish by 

 JULIUS E. OLSON, 



Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Languages in the University of Wisconsin. 



WITH AN introduction TO THE AMERICAN EDITION BY 



FREDERICK SCHWATKA, 



Medallist of the Paris Geographical Society, and of the Imperial Geographical 



Society of Russia; Honorary Member of the Bremen Geographical Society, 



and the Swiss Geographical Society of Geneva; Corresponding Member 



of the Italian Geographical Society, etc., etc.; Author of 



"Along Alaska's Great River," etc., etc. 



CHICAGO: 



S. C. GRIGGS & COMPANY, 

 1889. 



