BEGINNING OF VOYAGE 21 



Account of the Sea Voyage from Kamchatka 

 TO America 3- [and Return] 



Towards the end of May, in the year 1741, all the necessary 

 preparations for the voyage to America were at last completed, 

 and the packet-boats St. Peter and St. Paul moved out of the 

 harbor on May 29 and anchored in the roadstead of Avacha Bay 

 to wait for a fair wind in order to clear the entrance. On the 

 St. Peter, which I also boarded, there were ^^ Captain Com- 

 mander Bering as commanding officer, Lieutenant Waxel, Fleet 

 Master Khitrov, mate Hesselberg, second mate Yushin, assistant 

 surgeon Betge, assistant constable Roselius, guard marine Sint, 

 boatswain Nils Jansen, assistant navigator Khotyaintsov, com- 

 missary Lagunov,^^ surveyor Plenisner, the rest of the crew, 

 viz. sailors, soldiers, five sons of Kamchatkan cossacks as sailor- 

 apprentices, interpreters, and men supposed to be familiar with 

 all places on the Kamchatkan coast, one of whom was in my 

 service as a hunter, making a total, including the son of the lieu- 

 tenant, of 76 men, 3 5 — On the other packet-boat, the St. Paul, 



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



33 The names of members of the expedition are here and elsewhere 

 throughout the journal spelled in the standardized form established for 

 Vol. I. The spellings used in the MS in some cases differ considerably 

 from these, such as Chytrew for Khitrov. Some of the differences are 

 doubtless due to copyists' errors; most of these are eliminated by Pallas' 

 skillful hand. There would still remain the differences resulting from 

 transliteration from Russian into German in the one case and from 

 Russian into English in the other, not to speak of the instability and lack 

 of definiteness in the spelling of proper names prevalent in the eighteenth 

 century. 



Hesselberg's name is spelled thus instead of Eselberg as in Vol. i 

 (pp. 226, 282, 312) because this is probably the preferable form. It is so 

 spelled both in the MS and the published version of the journal, in which 

 more information is given about him than in the cited passages in the log 

 book and Waxel's and Chirikov's reports. 



34 Between Lagunov and Plenisner the MS lists "a trumpeter." 



35 This agrees with the figure to be arrived at by adding the number 

 (45) of survivors on Bering Island as given in the list in Khitrov's version 

 of the log book (Vol. i, p. 235) to the number (31) of deaths as given 



