214 DESCRIPTION OF BERING ISLAND 



falcons''^ on Kamchatka catch them in the same way as [they 

 do] the [common] foxes and break their necks while they 

 run. 



The blue foxes that we found in indescribable numbers on 

 this island are in appearance exactly the same as those which are 

 caught near Olyutora on the mainland ; and this species, inasmuch 

 as there are no other land animals on the island, probably came 

 from there or from America on drift ice a long time ago. We 

 also found them in America, but a good deal poorer and smaller 

 than the Siberian blue stone-foxes. 



[The Sea Otter] 78 



With warm-blooded sea animals the Bering Island region is 

 more copiously provided. When we arrived there the sea 

 beavers (or sea otters,'^^ Lutris) were present in large numbers.^o 

 In November and December we killed them 3 to 4 versts from 

 our quarters at the so-called Bobrovoe Pole^i (Beaver [i.e. Sea 

 Otter] Field) and Kozlova Ryechka;^^ in January, 6 to 8 versts 

 at Kitova Ryechka^ (Whale Creek) ; in February, 20 versts^^ at 



made by Steller on Bering Island which for want of a better place have 

 been inserted here, possibly by Pallas. 



"a Falco islandus Briinnich. (S) 



78 The section on the sea otter occurs in the MS after the end of the 

 passage in the MS translated above in footnote 382, pp. 161-162. It 

 is followed by the passages the published version of which is translated 

 above beginning on p. 162. The excision by Pallas from the MS of the 

 section on the sea otter can be traced on the facsimile reproductions 

 above (Figs. 18, 19, 20) of the corresponding pages of the published 

 version and the MS. On the present translation see p. 189, footnote I. 



"9 See above, p. 32, footnote 57. 



80 These are two introductory sentences inserted by Pallas, 



81 On the location of Bobrovoe Pole see, above, footnote 336. 



82 Possibly the short stream debouching into Kozlovo Pole at the 

 southeastern end of the sandy beach at Polovina (PI. II). 



83 On the location of this stream, see, above, p. 192, footnote 11, and 

 PI. II. 



8« The MS has "20 to 30 versts." 



