KOTES. 203 



A. Strindberg: P. J. v. Strahlenherg , in the Swedish Society for 

 Anthropology and Geography, 1879, No. 6. 



4. V. Berch: The First Voyage of the Russians, pp. 2-5. 



5. Bering's report to the Admiralty, in The First Voyage of the 

 Russians, p. 14, together with his original account in Description 

 geographique, historique de Vempire de la Chine. Par le Pere J. 

 B. Du Halde. La Hague, 1736, IV., 562. 



6. G. W. Steller: Beschreihung v. dem Lande Kamtschatka. 

 Frankfurt, 1774. 



Krasheninikoff: The History of Kamtschatka. Glocester, 1764. 



7. A species of bears-foot, Sphondylium foliolis pinnatijides. 

 Cleff. 



8. Bering's fear of the Chukehees may seem in our day to put 

 him in a bad light; but they who are familiar with the history of 

 this people know that at the time of Bering they were very warlike. 

 Both Schestakoff and Pavlutski fell in combat with them. Neue 

 nordische Beitrdge, I., 245. 



J. Bulitsheff: Reise in Ostsibirien. Leipzig, 1858, p. 33. 



9. The ship's journal, kept by Lieut. P. Chaplin, is the basis of 

 this presentation. The first Voyage of the Russians, pp. 31-65. 

 Von Baer has used it to some extent, but no other West European 

 author. 



In Bering Strait there are two Diomede islands. The boundary 

 line between Russia and North America passes between them. The 

 Russian island is called Ratmanoff or Iraaklit, the American Kru- 

 senstern or Ingalisek. See W. H. Dall: Alaska, Boston, 1870, p. 249. 



10. That Bering himself was the author, would seem to be shown 

 by the fact that Weber who knew and associated with Bering, uses 

 verbatim the same expressions concerning the first expedition. See 

 Weber: Das verdnderte Russland, III., 157. 



11. Cook and King: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, III., 244.— 

 The only place where I have found any testimony to show that 

 America was seen from the Gabriel is a chart by J. N. Del'Isle: 

 '' Carte Generale des Decoicvertes de V Admiral de Fo7ite," Paris, 

 1752, on which chart, opposite the Bering peninsula, a coast line is 

 represented with the words: " Terres vues par M. Spangberg en 



