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Chukchi Cape of the Anadyr Cossacks, who so denominated the eastern 
extreme of Asia, which they knew from report and by the voyage of 
Deshneff. There can be no reasonable doubt that Bering named his cape 
after the people who had described it to him, although the imperfections 
of the record leave this to be inferred. Bering’s map gives the latitude 
of the south extreme of the cape as about 64° 02’, and it is erroneously 
represented as extending south of the latitude of the northwest end of 
St. Lawrence Island. Its real latitude is about fifteen miles further 
north. Cook made it 64° 13’. Chaplin’s journal (according to Laurid- 
sen) makes it 64° 18’, which would agree with the latest surveys very 
nearly, though the coincidence must be regarded as a happy accident 
in view of their imperfect tables, instruments and methods. Bering’s 
report places its eastern extreme in 64° 25’ and (wrongly) in the same 
longitude as the west end of St. Lawrence Island. 
Aug. 10/21. St. Lawrence’s day. The island referred to by 
the Chukchi was seen and the vessel stood toward it, about two 
o’clock in the afternoon. Twice, an officer with a four-oared boat 
was sent to reconnoiter the coast more closely, but he saw only 
what appeared to be huts without inhabitants (C.). The island 
(of which only the northwest hilly portion was seen, owing to the 
hazy weather) was named after the patron saint of the day and 
the course of the vessel was changed to the northward. 
Aug. 11/22. . At noon the latitude was estimated at 64° 20’, and 
at sunset an attempt was made by the determination of the 
magnetic variation to get the longitude (L.). 
Notes.—An illustration of the want of care with which Lauridsen has 
weighed his comments, it may be pointed out that he claims (p. 32, Am. 
Ed.) that on reaching latitude 64° 20’ the Gabriel was in Bering Strait, 
while two pages later, on her return southward, he declares her to 
have got out of the strait on reaching latitude 64° 27’! As a matter of 
fact, at the present day, the whalers and traders of this region consider 
that Cape Chaplin (more commonly known as Indian Point) forms the f 
southwest point of entrance to the strait; and this point is situated in 
latitude 64° 25’ and E. longitude 187° 40’, as determined by the writer 
in 1880. This is perhaps the point referred to by Bering as the eastern 
point of his Chukotskoi Cape. 
The magnetic method of determining the longitude would give cor- 
rect results only accidentally, as previously explained. The result 
announced by Lauridsen for the present occasion is 25° 31’ east from 
Lower Kamchatka Ostrog or 187° 51’ east from Greenwich, which would 
be within a few miles of the latest determinations. But it is obvious 
from Bering’s map that he could not have made his position less than 
28° 45’ east from Lower Kamchatka, and the position above given is 
perhaps an interpolation from modern sources, which has been misun- 
derstood or mistranslated. As Lauridsen has paraphrased, not quoted, 
