NOTES. 207 



33. Beitrdge zur Kenntniss, etc., XVI., 44. Note. 



33. Philip Johann Tabbert, ennobled in 1707 and called Von 

 Strahlenberg, was born at Stralsiind in 1676, and taken captive 

 after the battle of Pultowa as captain in the army of Charles XII. 

 He was banished to Tobolsk, traveled some years with Dr. Mes- 

 serschmidt in Siberia, and together with other Swedish officers he 

 made several maps of Siberia, which, without his knowledge or con- 

 sent, were published in Holland by Bentinck, 1726, in UHistoire des 

 Tartar es, etc., and reprinted in various works such as i^a Russie 

 asiatique, tiree de la Carte donnee par ordre du feu Czar." In 

 1730, Strahlenberg's own work appeared in Leipsic; it is marked by 

 its minute knowledge of details. His representation of the Chuk- 

 chees peninsula deserves attention as evidence of the knowledge the 

 Cossacks had of this region, whereas there is nothing original in his 

 representation of the coast-lines of Eastern Asia. Baer says that 

 Strahlenberg's book and map was made by a Leipsic student, and 

 that whatever it contains that is of value is taken from Messer- 

 schmidt. Beitrdge, XVI., 126. Note 18. 



34. This map is reproduced in Nordenskjold's Voyage of the 

 Vega. 



35. Steller: Eeise von Kamtschatka, etc., p. 6, where a very 

 erroneous and unreasonable account of the result of Bering's first 

 expedition is given. 



36. Kiriloff's map is found in Russici imperii Tab. Qeneralis 

 et Specialis, Vol. XLIII. 



37. Strangely enough, no original copy seems to have remained 

 in the archives of the Admiralty. Berch insists that no such copy 

 exists. I investigated the matter in 1883, and later Mr. A. Thor- 

 nam has examined the archives for this purpose, but without result. 



38. Du Halde writes : Ce Capitaine revint d Set. Petersburg le 

 premier jour de JIars de Vannee 1730, et apporta une relation suc- 

 cinte de son voyage, avec la Carte qu'il en avoit dressee. Cette 

 Carte fut envoy ee au Serenissime Roi de Pologne, comme une pre- 

 sent digne de son attention et de sa curiosite, et Sa ITaJestete a 

 bien voulu qiCelle me fut communiquee en me permettant d'en faire 

 tel usage quHl me plairot. J'ai cru que le Public me scauroit quel- 

 que gre de V avoir ajoutee d toutes celles queje lui avois promises. 



