IirDEX. 



Academists, 70, 78; leave Tobolsk, 

 81. 



Academy of Science, Russian, 57. 



Addington, cape, 189. 



Admiralty Bay, 145. 



Admiralty, Russian, dissatisfac- 

 tion with Bering, 95. 



Afgonak, island, 156. 



Aino, 124. 



Akischis, strait, 124. 



Alaska, 178. 



Aldan, river, 23. 



Aleutian Islands, 134, 140; dis- 

 covery of, 167, 187. 



Aleutians, Nearer, 168. 



Aliaska, 161. 



Amassoff, 18. 



Amchitka, 167. 



America Pars, 14. 



Anadyr, fort, 42, 



Anadyr, river, Cossacks at, 16; 

 the Gabriel at, 30. 



Anadyrsk, 46. 



Anian, strait, 13, 15. 



Anjou, 110. 



Anna Ivanovna, 63. 



Apraxin, 9. 



Archangel Michael, ship, 100. 



Arctic Coast, charting of, 62, 83. 



Arctic expeditions, 107. 



Arctic explorations, work of Rus- 

 sia and England in, 3. 



Arctic foxes, 181. 



Arii Kamen, 175. 



Asia and America, boundary be- 

 tween, 13. 



Atka, island, 165. 



Atna, estuary, 148. 

 Attn, island, 168. 

 Avacha, 127, 134, 170, 190. 



B 



Baikal, lake, 91. 



Balshaya, river, 26. 



Bancroft, H, H., note on, 64; 

 64 ; note from, 73, 140 ; note on 

 identity of Kayak and St. Elias, 

 149 ; note on, 188. 



Baranoff Cliff, 109. 



Barants, map of, 14. 



Bartholomew, cape, 189. 



Bear Islands, 18, 67. 



Bellini, map by, 20, 118. 



Berch, V., authority, 41; opinion 

 of Bering, 52, 61. 



Bering Bay, 144; incorrect loca- 

 tion of, 146. 



Bering Island, 51 ; discovery of, 

 169; description of, 174. 



Bering Haven, 149. 



Bering Peninsula, 67. 



Bering, Riviere de, 145. 



Bering Strait, discovery of, 32; 

 GvosdjefE in, 130. 



Bering, Vitus, first expedition, 2 ; 

 nativity, 6; in Baltic fleet, 9; 

 in Sea of Azov and Black Sea, 

 10; promotions, 10; in Arch- 

 angel, 10; home of, 11; dis- 

 charge and re-appointment of, 

 11; plans for first expedition, 

 12; knowledge of Siberian 

 geography, 19; starts on first 

 expedition, 21; at Irkutsk, 22; 

 at Yakutsk, 22 ; in relation to 



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