214 VITUS BERIN'G. 



the winter on Kayak Island ; but on the coast of the continent from 

 Ice Bay to the Atna River there are also found Innuits, the Ugalak- 

 muts. — See Vahl : Alaska, p. 39. The people that Bering found on 

 the island must, according to Sauer, have been Chugachees, Eski- 

 mos that live about Prince William's Sound. 



See also H. H. Bancroft, Native Races, San Francisco, 1882, Vol. 

 I.— Tr. 



60. Gavrila Sarycheff: AcTitjdhrige Reise im nordostUchen 

 Sihirien, auf dem Eismeer und dem nordostUchen Ocean. Leipzig, 

 1806, II., 57.— Sauer: An Account, etc., p. 198. "This per- 

 fectly answers to Steller's account of the Cape St. Elias of Bering, 

 and is undoubtedly the very spot where Steller landed, and where 

 the things above mentioned were left in the cellar. Thus it is very 

 plain that Cape St. Elias is not the southern point of Montague 

 Island, but Kay's Island." — G. Shelikoff: Erste und Zweite Reise. 

 St. Petersburg, 1793. 



61. ZapisU, IX., 303.— The Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1882. 

 Maps. 



62. Dall: Alaska and its Resources, p. 300. — Vahl in his work 

 on Alaska repeats Ball's opinion in a somewhat milder form. 



63. Krusenstern: Recueil de Hemoires Hydrogr., II., 72. — 

 Cook and King: Voyage, III., 384. — The Geodetic Coast Survey, 

 1882. 



64. Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, under date of June 9, 1889, writes 

 the translator : "The locality indicated in Lutke's map is correct. 

 It is consequently on the eastern side of the island. Steller's state- 

 ment that it was on the northern side is easily explained as follows : 

 The valley where he landed opens toward the northeast, and the 

 corresponding valley on the other side of the island runs southwest ; 

 this side consequently became the southern side. At the time of the 

 shipwreck the magnetic deviation was much more easterly than it is 

 now, so that hy compass the direction of the eastern coast was much 

 more E.-W. than at present. Throughout his description of 

 Bering Island, Steller says north and south, where we would say east 

 and west. 



"My visit to this locality in 1882, I have described in detail in 

 Deutsche Geographische Blatter (1885), where you will also find a 

 sketch map of it, as well as a plan of the house in which the survi- 

 vors wintered. 



