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after having sufifered such terrible misery, they were going to 

 care for their health and take a rest. Little cups of brandy con- 

 cealed here and there made their appearance in order to keep up 

 the joy. These cool words were heard trumpeted forth with the 

 voice of a herald: "Even if there had been a thousand navigators, 

 they could not have hit it off to a hair like this in their reckoning; 

 we are not a half mile off." — The sketches of Avacha were pro- 



German Miles 



P'lG. IS — Track of tlie St. Peter on approaching Bering Island, November 4-5, 

 1741, as reconstructed by L. Stejneger. Scale, 1:2, 560,000. (This should replace the 

 representation in Vol. i, PI. I.) 



duced and the land was found to agree exactly with them; Isopa 

 [Cape], Cape Shipunski, the mouth of the harbor, and the mayak 

 [Hghthouse] were pointed out.-^^ Although it might have been 

 known from the dead reckoning that we were at the very least on 

 the 55th parallel, while Avacha is two degrees farther south, yet, 

 because a headland was seen which was taken to be Shipunski, 

 our course was set northerly. When we had doubled the sup- 



298 Isopa Cape is the modern Cape Povorotni south of Avacha Bay; 

 Cape Shipunski is north of the bay. The Hghthouse was on the headland 

 on the northern side of the entrance to the bay. (For locations see Vol. 

 I, PI. I, inset, also p. 49, footnote 5.) 



