vi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Fig. Page 



1 8 Facsimile of page from published version of Steller's jour- 



nal to illustrate editorial changes from the MS by Pallas 164 



19 Reduced facsimile of (approximately corresponding) fol. 76 



of MS copy of Steller's journal 165 



20 Reduced facsimile of fol. 77 of MS copy of Steller's journal 166 



21 Sketch of Copper Island seen from Bering Island .... 175 



22 The harbor of Petropavlovsk seen from the north . facing 186 



23 The monument to Bering in Petropavlovsk .... facing 186 



24 Mt. Steller, the highest mountain on Bering Island . facing 194 



25 Cape Manati, the southeastern cape of Bering Island 



facing 195 



26 Steller's Arch, on western shore of Bering Island . . facing 195 



27 Yushin's \'alley on western shore of the southern end of 



Bering Island facing 202 



28 Steller makes the first measurement of a sea cow, Bering 



Island, July 12 (O. S.), 1742 facing 228 



29 Representation of a fur seal, a sea lion, and a sea cow on the 



copy of Waxel's chart of the voyage (in the Czar's 

 library at Tsarskoe Selo in 189 1) facing 229 



30 Facsimile of Steller's handwriting, from the end of his 



letter to Gmelin of November 4 (O. S.), 1742 248 



Pi. 



I Photograph of a manuscript map prepared by Joseph 

 Nicolas Delisle in 1731 to show for Bering's impending 

 expedition what was then known of the relation of east- 

 ern Asia to America (from the archives of the Service 

 Hydrographlque de la Marine, Paris) facing 72 



II Map of Bering Island by Leonhard Stejneger, based 

 mainly on the author's surveys in 1882-83 and reduced, 

 with slight changes and additions in names, from Bull. 

 U. S. Fish Comm., Vol 16. i8g6. Fl.lV .... facing 208 



