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BEHRING ISLAND. 
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on a small scale, and at the fishing place on the north side where 
there are two large sheds for skins and a number of very small 
earth-holes used only during the slaughter season. 
Behring Island, with regard both to geography and natural 
history, is one of the most remarkable islands in the north part 
of the Pacific. It was here that Behring after his last unfortunate 
voyage in the sea which now bears his name, finished his long 
course as an explorer. He was however survived by many of 
his followers, among them by the physician and naturalist Steller, 
THE. “colony” on COPPER ISLAND. 
(After a photograph.) . 
to whom we owe a masterpiece seldom surpassed—a sketch of 
the natural conditions and animal life on the island, never before 
visited by man, where he involuntarily passed the time from the 
middle of November 1741, to the end of August 1742.^ 
^ Original accounts of the wintering on Behring Island are to be found 
in Muller’s Sammlung JRussischer Geschichte, St. Petersburg, 1758, iii. 
pp. 228-238 and 242-268; (Steller’s) TopograpMsche urid physikalische 
