130 National Geographic Magazme. 
“Chart of Norton Sound and of Bherings Strait made by the 
East Cape of Asia and the west point of America.” 
On this chart the main features of the coast on either side of the 
strait are correctly indicated, though several of the inlets and bays are 
wanting. The Diomedes and Fairway Rock of modern charts are lo- 
cated but left without names, King’s Island is named ; Arakam was not 
recognized as an island nor was Point Chaplin (Indian Point) observed. 
St. Lawrence Isiand was seen in foggy weather. Its isolated hills con- 
nected by very low flat land led Cook into the error of supposing that 
it comprised several islands, one of which he correctly referred to that 
named St. Lawrence by Bering and the rest he lumped under the name — 
of Clerke’s Islands. A single fictitious island. midway between St. 
Lawrence and King’s appears on the chart, but is not named or men- 
tioned in the text. St. Lawrence Bay is named and discovered. Ber-_ 
ing and Miiller’s Chukotski cape is correctly identified. East Cape is 
well delineated, and the name Serdze Kamen (Heart-Rock) originally 
given toa cliff or bluff point at the entrance of Holy Cross Bay is 
transferred to a point on the Arctic shore of the peninsula. There is a 
confused and somewhat curious history connected with the use of the 
names Serdze-Kamen and Chukotski Cape. After the travels of Desh- 
neff, Popoff and others and the reception at various times of informa- 
tion from the natives, it was pretty generally understood among the 
hunters and traders of this region that the extreme of Asia was a cape 
or point on or near which the Chukchi dwelt, or which they described, 
which was not definitely located, and which was vaguely known as the 
Chukchi Cape or the Cape of the Chukchis, Chukotski Noss in the 
Russian tongue. Cape Serdze Kamen will be found on the chart of 
Billings’ Voyage. It was the point where the Chukchis successfully 
defended themselves against the invading Russians who sought to force 
them to pay tribute. Beyond it, for the Russians all was mysterious 
Chukchi country with an unknown coast. This cape being their ne 
plus ultra it is probable that it was more or less confounded by these 
illiterate and ignorant hunters with the supposed eastern Cape of Asia, 
otherwise the Cape of the Chukchisas used by Miller. Admit this and 
it is not difficult to frame an hypothesis which shall account for the 
confusion, without recourse to the absurd charges with which Laurid- 
sen attempts to soil the reputation of Muller, Steller and others. 
When Bering named a cape near which he met a baidar-load of 
Chukchi who gave him some geographical information (among other 
things that the coast made a turn after passing it) he called this cape 
with great propriety the Cape of the Chukchis, as observed by Cook 
(ii, p. 474) and with no reference to the legendary Cape of the Chukchis 
above referred to. 
But when Miller and others more familiar with the records of the 
earlier explorers came to make maps, they naturally applied the 
legendary name to the cape which they supposed to be the eastern end 
of Asia, and beyond which the coast makes a turn to the west. Muller 
