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Sea from the ^-^th June to the 1787, and in 1791 Billings 
sailed up to St. Lawrence Bay, from which he went over land 
with eleven men to Yakutsk. The rest of this lengthened 
expedition does not concern the regions now in question.^ 
Among voyages during the century it remains to give account 
of those which have been made by Otto voii Kotzebue, who 
during his famous circumnavigation of the globe in 1815—18, 
among other things also passed through Behring’s Straits and 
discovered the strata, remarkable in a geological point of view, 
at Eschscholz Bay; Lutke, who during his circumnavigation of 
the globe in 1826—29, visited the islands and sound in the 
neighbourhood of Chukotskoj-nos; Moore, who wintered at 
Chukotskoj-nos in 1848—49, and gave us much interesting 
information as to the mode of life of the ISTamollos and 
Chukches; Kellet, who in 1849 discovered Kellet Land and 
Herald Island on the coast of Wrangel Land; John Bodgers, 
who in 1855 carried out for the American government much 
important hydrographical work in the seas on both sides of 
Behring’s Straits; Dallmann, who during a trading voyage in 
the Behring Sea landed at various points on Wrangel Land; Long, 
who in 1867, as captain of the whaling barque Nile, discovered the 
sound between Wrangel Land and the mainland (Long Sound) 
and penetrated from Behring’s Straits westwards farther than 
1 Billings’ voyage is described in Martin Sauer’s Account of a Geogra¬ 
phical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Asia, dc., hy 
Commodore Joseph Billings, London, 1802, and Gavrila Sarycliev’s 
Achtjdhrige Peise im ndrdlichen Siherien, auf dem Eismeere und dem nord- 
bstlichen Ocean. Aus dem Russischen iihersetzt von J. H. Busse, Leipzig, 
1805-1806. As interesting to our Swedish readers it may be mentioned 
that the Russian hunter Prybilov informed Sauer that a Swedish brigantine, 
Merhur, coppered, carrying sixteen cannon, commanded by J. H. Coxe, in 
1788, cruised in the Behring Sea in order to destroy the Russian settlements 
there. They however, according to Prybilov’s statement to Sauer, “did 
no damage, because they saw that we had nothing worth taking away. 
They instead gave us gifts, because they were ashamed to offer violence 
to such poor fellows as we” (Sauer, p. 213). 
