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Island.* This correct view is now beginning to find its 

 way into American maps, where, in the latest works. 

 Cape St. Elias will be found in the proper place, together 

 with a Bering Haven on the northern coast of Kayak, f 



* Bancroft, History of Alaska, p. 79, presents the same view: "The iden- 

 tity of Kayak is established by comparing Bering's with Cook's observations, 

 which would be enough even if the chart appended to Khitroff's journal had 

 not been preserved. At first both Cook and Vancouver thought it Yakutat 

 Bay, which they named after Bering, but both changed their minds. As late 

 as 1787 the Russian Admiralty college declared that the island Chukli (Mon- 

 tague of Vancouver) was the point of Bering's discovery, but Admiral Sary- 

 cheflF, who examined the journals of the expedition, pointed at once to 

 Kayak Island as the only point to which the description of Bering and 

 Steller could apply. Sarj-cheflf made one mistake in applying the name of 

 Cape St. Elias to the nearest point of the mainland called Cape Suckling by 

 Cook."— Tr. 



+ Note 61. 



