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Krause Brothers, 1882. 



Two brothers, Dr. Arthur Krause and Dr. Aurel Krause, were sent 

 out by the Bremen Geographical Society in 1881 to make ethnographic 

 and geographic studies in Alaska. In the summer of 1881 they visited 

 and mapped a district about the head of Lynn canal and Chilkat river. 

 Later they visited and worked in Bering strait, making a map of the 

 country about East cape. Accounts of this have appeared in various 

 journals. A summing up of all the work was published in 1885, 

 entitled Ergebnisse einer Reise nach der Nordwest Kiiste von Amerika 

 und der Berings-Strasse, etc., 8°, Jena, 1885, 16 + 120 pp., with 

 illustrations. 



In this dictionary Krause's names have all been taken from a map of 

 the Chilkat region, from surveys by Arthur Krause in 1882, which 

 was published in Zeitschrift der Ges. fiir Erdk. zu Berlin, 1883, Vol. 



XVIII, plate 9. 



Krenitzin and Levashef, 1768-69. 



On May 1, 1761, the Tsarina of Russia issued an ukaz ordering a 

 secret naval expedition to explore between Asia and America. In 

 charge of it was placed Capt. -Lieut. Peter Kuzmich Krenitzin, whose 

 principal assistant was Lieut. Michael Levashef. Leaving St. Peters- 

 burg on July 1, 1764, the party went to Okhotsk and there built two 

 vessels, repaired two others, and with the four saik^d from Okhotsk 

 on October 10, 1766. Shipwreck soon followed and the shipwrecked 

 crews wintered at Bolsheretsk in Kamchatka. The following summer 

 they repaired their boats, sailed to Nizhnikamchatsk, and there passed 

 the winter. Finally, on June 21, 1768, all was ready and the party 

 sailed eastward, Krenitzin commanding the galiot St. Catherine and 

 Levashef the hooker St. Paid. They cruised through the eastern part 

 of the Aleutian chain, and wintered, Levashef in the port in Unalaska 

 which now bears his name, and Krenitzin in the strait between Unimak 

 and Alaska peninsula. 



The following year (1769) both ships returned to Kamchatka, 

 Krenitzin arriving on July 29 and Levashef on August 21. They 

 wintered at Kamchatka. On July 1, 1770, Krenitzin was drowned, 

 whereupon Levashef assumed command and returned to St. Peters- 

 burg, arriving on October 22, 1771. Coxe published in 1780 the first 

 account of this voyage. An official account of it, in Russian, was pub- 

 lished in the Journal of the Russian Navy Department in 1852, Vol. X, 

 pp. 70-103. Petrof drew largely from this official report for the 

 account written by him in Bancroft's (H. H.) History of Alaska, pp. 



157-168. 



Krusenstern, 1804-05. 



Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, in the ship midezMa^ (Hope), 

 and accompanied by Lisianski in the ship Nem^ made the first of a 



