DECISION TO BUILD NEW VESSEL 175 



from it, such a decisionals was taken in a council held on April 9 

 and the following arrangement was made, which was to remain in 

 force from the date when the breaking up should begin until the 

 building of the new vessel should be completed: (i) that the 

 twelve men skilled in the use of the ax should work continuously 

 on the carpenter work; (2) that the others, with the exception 

 only of the two of^cers and myself, should hunt and work in such 

 a manner that, when one party returned home from the hunt, 

 though indeed having a day for rest, they should nevertheless 

 also attend to the housework and afterwards mend clothing and 

 shoes but on the third and following days they should assist with 

 the work on the vessel, until their turn to hunt came around 

 again; (3) that all meat should be brought to one place and every 



the journal, p. 169 — "the point projecting north"). Furthermore, the 

 height and distance of Copper Island are such that it was in plain view on 

 every clear day from the huts of the shipwrecked crew (see Fig. 21) and 



Fig. 21 — Copper Island seen from spot near camp of shipwrecked crew on Bering 

 Island marked "Polovina" on PI. II. Sketch by L. Stejneger, April 21. 1883. 



Because of the deep Bobrovi Valley Copper Island at this distance appears as 

 two islands. Mt. Stejneger was so named and its elevation determined as 637 meters 

 by J. Morozewicz (Mem. Comite GeoL, Vol. 72 (N. S.), St. Petersburg, 1912, p. 45). 



was therefore known to them. From Cape Waxel it was barely within 

 the arc of visibility, but in an even more southeasterly direction than 

 from the camp. 



In conformity with the report an island is shown northeast of Bering 

 Island on Waxel's map (this section reproduced in Memoir es Acad. Imp. 

 des Set. de St. Petersbourg, Series 7, Vol. 38, No. 7, 1891 , and our Fig. 29; 

 modified copy in Dall, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Rept. for i8qo, 

 PI. 70, referred to above in footnote 260), a representation which per- 

 sisted on many of the later maps (e. g. our Fig. 14). (J) 



"9 For the wording of that decision see the log book under April 9 

 (Vol. I, p. 233). 



