148 National Geographic Magazine. 
It is not clear from Lauridsen’s account whether in the above list are 
or are not included the two mates, Richard Engel and George Morison, 
or the cartographer Potiloff, who started with Bering from St. Peters- 
burg. Luzhin was left behind, being ill. 
July 13/24. The variation of the compass was determined to 
be 13° 10’ easterly (L.). In the afternoon (being the 14th nauti- 
cal reckoning) the vessel left the Kamchatka river. (B. C. H.) 
They steered to the northeast along the coast, which was kept in 
sight to the north and west, in from nine to twelve fathoms 
water. As the point of departure Cape Kamchatka was deter- 
mined to be in north latitude 56° 3’ (M. L.) 
Notes.—The variation of the compass in 1885 was 2° 30’ easterly 
(Schott). As will be seen by the Table of Positions, the latitude above 
given for the cape is not the same as that adopted by Bering on his 
chart. The depth mentioned shows that the Gabriel must have kept 
within a few miles, probably not exceeding ten, from the shore and 
the very slow progress made, as indicated by the log, not much exceed- 
ing two miles an hour gives rise to the suspicion that, in the early part 
of the voyage, in order to keep their survey continuous, they probably 
lay to during the hours of darkness. Off Karaginski Island the varia- 
tion of the compass was determined to be the same as at the mouth of 
the Kamchatka river. 
From this date to the 27th, the accessible authorities give no ‘ie 
and the expedition probably pursued its way uneventfully. 
—-+——. This day a prominent Cape was passed at a distance 
of some three miles. [It was named St. Thaddeus, after the 
saint on whose holy day it was again seen on the return voyage. | 
Many grampus, porpoises, seals and sealions were seen (L.). 
Notes.—This Cape St. Thaddeus is not the cape of the same name on 
modern charts, but the cape now known as Cape Navarin. This is 
evident from Bering’s chart. Bering’s position for the cape is in error 
about fifteen miles in latitude and three degrees in longitude on his 
chart, while in the list of positions, the error is only about five miles of 
latitude and half a degree in longitude. 
From near Cape Thaddeus Bering stood across Anadyr Gulf, out 
of sight of the low land, missing Anadyr Bay, and thereby falling 
into the error of placing on his chart the mouth of the Anadyr River 
south of the cape. The error was subsequently corrected by G. F. 
Miller. 
Lauridsen observes (American edition, p. 30), that ‘‘ having sailed - 
past the Anadyr River without quite being able to find their bearings, 
in regions of which they had not a single astronomical determination,” 
