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different from Ukamok, and regardless of the fact that 

 for these reasons he restored St. Stephen on his map. 

 Lieutenant Sokoloff, who most recently, in Russian 

 literature, has treated Bering's voyage to America, has 

 wholly disregarded Krusenstern's essay, and says that 

 St. Stephen is identical with Ukamok. Sokoloff's essay 

 is very superficial, and, compared with Krusenstern's 

 weighty reasons, is based on mere supposition. But, 

 although the map of the North Pacific, in the Eussian 

 Admiralty (1844), has a Tumannoi Island (that is. Foggy 

 Island, St. Stephen) somewhat northeast of Ukamok, it 

 must be admitted that, until the United States under- 

 takes a new and careful survey of the Aliaska peninsula 

 and its southern surroundings, this question can not be 

 thoroughly decided, probable as it may be that Bering 

 and Krusenstern are both right. 



August 3, the voyage was continued toward the north- 

 west. In a latitude of 56° (according to Steller) they 

 saw the high snow-capped mountain peaks of the Aliaska 

 peninsula in a direction N. N. W. by W., but on account 

 of stormy and foggy weather they sought, with an easterly 

 wind, to get back into their main course. Thus they 

 reached, August 4, the Jefdokjejefski Islands in a direc- 

 tion S. S. E. I by E., at a distance of twenty miles from 

 55° 45' N. These form a group of seven high and rocky 

 islands, which on Russian maps still bears the same name, 

 but in West Europe this name has been displaced, and 

 they are usually called the Semidi, or Semidin, Islands, 

 the name of the largest of the group. 



On August 7, they found themselves south of the 

 Jefdokjejefski Islands. But now misfortunes began to 



