CHARACTER ESTIMATE 7 



interesting and nothing more, showing as they do how men will 

 act under certain conditions. In reading of their voyage it 

 would be much better to think less of their quarrels and more of 

 their glorious deeds. 



identified as Lieutenant Waxel, is mainly a refutation of J. N. Delisle's 

 claims concerning his part in the origin of Bering's second expedition 

 and Delisle de la Croyere's achievements on that expedition. It does 

 not deal with Steller. 



