34 VITUS BERING. 



they saw many Chukchees, and at two places they saw 

 dwellings. The natives fled at the sight of the ship. At 

 3 o'clock very high land and mountains were passed. 

 With a very good breeze, they had been enabled to sail 

 164 miles, and an observation showed that they were in 

 latitude 64° 27'. According to this, Bering was out of 

 the strait and getting farther and farther away from the 

 American continent. 



August 18, the wind was light and the weather clear. 

 On the 20th, beyond the Island of St. Lawrence, he met 

 other Chukchees, who told him that they had made jour- 

 neys from the Kolyma River westward to Olenek, but 

 that they never went by sea. They knew of the Anadyr 

 fort which lay farther to the south; on this coast there 

 dwelt people of their race; others they did not know. 



After a storm on the 31st of August, in which the 

 main and foresail were rent, the anchor cable was broken 

 and the anchor lost, they reached the mouth of the Kam- 

 chatka at 5 o'clock p. M., September 2, 1728. 



