I'iG. 6— Facsimile of Bcrkh's map of 1823 (sec bibliography) showing the route of BcrinRs first expedition from Okhotsk 

 scale, 1116,000,000 (original 1:9.000.000). The dates have been identified and added from Berkh's abridged version of midshipman 

 noon positions. Bcrkh's plotting of the ship's tracks has been slightly modified for .August l8-i0 and August 30. 1728. It would al 

 10, 1728 (Bering s report implies that a landing was made on St. Lawrence Island, cf. p. 18) and June 10-17. 1729 (Chaplin' 

 tation. But othe^iso, so far as known, Berkh's map is the standard, and only modern, reconstruction of the tracks of Bering-; 

 expedition what Captain Bertholfs map (PI. I) does for the second. 



The vessels in which the several sections of the tracks shown were sailed are: .\ugust 22-Septemb<-r 1727 Fortune (Bering ai 

 Chaplin; it is this vessel's track that is shown); July is-September I, 1738, SI. Gabriel; June 6-JuIy 3, 1739, 5/. Gabriel; July 14- 



Bering Strait and muni. Me 

 Peter Chaplin's log book. On sea ihcy rrrrrsent 

 so seem as if the position of the tracks on .Auinist 

 s log book) might be susceptible of other interinr- 

 9 vessels on liis first expedition. It docs fee that 



nd Spanberg) and nameless \TSSd lOurikov and 

 33, '739. .>"<. GcbritL 



