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PP- 93-94- [Oil copies in Sweden of Bering's map of his first 

 expedition.] 



NoRDENSKiOLD, A. E. Den forsta p4 verkliga iakttagelser grundade 

 karta ofver norra Asien. Ymer, Vol. 7, 1887, pp. 133-144. Stockholm. 



Bancroft, H. H. Alaska, 1730-1885. (In his "History of the Pacific 

 States of North America," San Francisco, 1882-90, Vol. 28.) San 

 Francisco, 1886. [Bering's voyages are treated in Chapters 3-5. 

 There is a valuable but undifferentiated list of "Authorities quoted," 

 pp. xxiii-xxxviii.] 



Lauridsen, Peter. Vitus Jonassen Bering. Ceografisk Tidskrift, Vol. 

 6, 1862, pp. 89-98. Copenhagen. [A study preliminary to Lauridsen's 

 major work, listed in the next entry. This paper discusses the f.rst 

 expedition only.] 



Lauridsen, Peter. Vitus I. Bering og de russiske opdagelsesrejser 

 fra 1725-43. Copenhagen, 1885. [The Danish original of the next 

 entry, which see. Reviewed by A. E. Nordenskiold in Journ. Amer. 

 Geogr. Soc, Vol. 17, 1885, pp. 285-298.] 



Lauridsen, Peter. Vitus Bering, the discoverer of Bering Strait. 

 Revised by the author, and translated from the Danish by Julius 

 E. Olson. . . . With an introduction to the American edition by Fred- 

 erick Schwatka. . . . Chicago, 1889. [An apologia of Bering. In spite 

 of this bias it is valuable as one of the first West European discussions 

 of the subject taking the Russian sources into consideration. The 

 author had access to the Russian archives in 1883, but even with 

 the assistance received from Admiral Wessalgo, then director of the 

 Hydrographic Section of the Ministry of Marine, and others, the 

 handicap of incomplete familiarity with Russian could not be entirely 

 overcome. Lauridsen reproduces (map III) in quasi-facsimile from 

 Sokolov, Zapiski Hydrogr. Depi., Vol. 9, combined, the tracks of the 

 St. Peter and the St. Paul from the original charts of Waxel and Khitrov 

 and of Chirikov. But, as the accumulated error in longitude of the 

 ship's position in each case is not prorated but is thrown into one 

 day, the two tracks are not properly related to each other. However, 

 the map is of importance as representing the navigators' own con- 

 ception of their tracks. Lauridsen also reproduces (map IV), from the 

 same publication, Khitrov's map of Kayak Island from his journal.] 



Vakhtin, V. Russkiye truzheniki morya. Pervaya morskaya eks- 

 peditsiya Beringa, etc. (Russian self-sacrificing navigators. Bering's 

 first expedition, etc.). St. Petersburg, 1890. [Publishes documents on 

 the first voyage.] 



Dall, W. H. Alaska and its resources. Boston, 1870. [Pp. 297-301 

 refer to Bering's voyages.] 



Dall, W. H, Notes on an original chart of Bering's expedition of 1725- 

 1730, and on an original manuscript chart of his second expedition; 



