G. W. STELLER'S 



FORMER ADJUNCT OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



JOURNAL 



of his sea voyage from the harbor of petropavlovsk 



in kamchatka to the western coasts 



of america and the happenings 



on the return voyage ^ 



Introduction 2 



Having lived to set foot once more upon the sacred soil of 

 Russia after the conclusion of a hard voyage of fourteen months ^ 



1 The title page of the MS reads: 



II 



Second Kamchatka Expedition Undertaken by 



Russian High Imperial Orders 



that is 



Description of the Voyage 



of Captain Commander Bering which was 



undertaken for the exploration of the lands 



lying to the northeast of Kamchatka, also of the 



island on which there was opportunity to land 



and on which we wintered in 1742, with which 



are described, in addition to what befell us, the objects 



in the three natural kingdoms that are to be found there 



by 



Georg Wilhelm Steller, Adjunct in Natural History 



of the Academy of Sciences 



of St. Petersburg 



1743 



2 This heading is supplied by Pallas; it is not in the MS. 



Pallas introduces the journal with this "Preface by the Editor. — This 

 noteworthy journal by the late Steller, whose loss can never be too 

 greatly deplored, was communicated to me in the original [Original] in 

 the year 1769 by the late professor of history Fischer, a friend of the 

 industrious Steller, and I was allowed to make a copy of it. I have 

 communicated a part of it, which contains the description of Bering 



