Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN EDITION.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

PART I. BERING'S FIRST EXPEDITION.

PART II. THE GREAT NORTHERN EXPEDITION.

PART III. THE VARIOUS EXPEDITIONS.

APPENDIX.

NOTES.

INDEX.

64 . Du Halde, 32 , 40 . Dwina, 67 , 112 . E Eared Seals, 178 ,

RUSSIAN EXPLORATIONS, 1725-1743.
VITUS BERING:
THE DISCOVERER OF BERING STRAIT.

BY

PETER LAURIDSEN,

Member of the Council of the Royal Danish Geographical Society,
Editor of Jens Munk's "Navigatio Septentrionalis."

Revised by the Author, and Translated from the Danish by

JULIUS E. OLSON,

Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Languages in the University of Wisconsin.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION BY

FREDERICK SCHWATKA,

Medallist of the Paris Geographical Society, and of the Imperial Geographical Society of Russia: Honorary Member of the Bremen Geographical Society, and the Swiss Geographical Society of Geneva; Corresponding Member of the Italian Geographical Society, etc., etc.; Author of "Along Alaska's Great River," etc., etc.


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1889.

COPYRIGHT, 1889,
BY S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.


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