beking's first expedition. 45 



and, misled by some vague reports from the garrison at 

 Fort Anadyr, he called this point Serdze Kamen. Every- 

 thing is guess-work ! 



But where did Miiller get his Serdze Kamen, and 

 what place was it that the garrison at Fort Anadyr called 

 by this name ? For of the extreme northeast part of the 

 peninsula, or the details of Bering's voyage — especially 

 as early as in 1730 — they could have had no knowledge. 

 The explanation is not difficult. On Eussian maps of the 

 last century, those of Pallas and Billings, for example,* 

 there is found on the eastern shore of St. Kresta Bay, some- 

 what northeast of the mouth of the Anadyr, a cape which 

 bears the name of Serdze Kamen. As Bering does not have 

 this name, and as it seems to have been known as early as at 

 the time of Pavlutski, it must have originated either with 

 him and the Cossacks at the fort, or with the Chukchees. 

 Sauer relates the following concerning the origin of the 

 name: '^Serdze Kamen is a very remarkable mountain 

 projecting into the bay at Anadyr. The land side of this 

 mountain has many caves, to which the Chukchees fled 

 when Pavlutski attacked them, and from where they 

 killed a large number of Eussians as they passed. Pav- 

 lutski was consequently obliged to seek reinforcements at 

 Anadyr, where he told that the Chukchees shot his men 

 from the heart of the cliff, and hence it received the 

 name of Serdze Kamen, or the heart-cliff. '' But this 

 account, which finds no authority whatever in Sauer's 

 work, is severely criticised by Liitke, who calls attention 

 to the fact that the Chukchees called a mountain on the 

 eastern shore of the St. Kresta Bay Linglin Gaiy that is, 



*Note 26. 



