Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . shall dwell more particularly uponthese voyages, we shall nevertheless mention in due order thoseundertaken for other purposes in all quarters of the globe. In 1803, Alexander of Russia determined to enter the careerof maritime discovery and geographical research. He sentCaptain Krusenstern upon a voyage round the world, in theLondon-built ship Nadeshda. Nothing resulted from thisvoyage except the augmented probability that Saghalien wasnot an island, but a penin
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . shall dwell more particularly uponthese voyages, we shall nevertheless mention in due order thoseundertaken for other purposes in all quarters of the globe. In 1803, Alexander of Russia determined to enter the careerof maritime discovery and geographical research. He sentCaptain Krusenstern upon a voyage round the world, in theLondon-built ship Nadeshda. Nothing resulted from thisvoyage except the augmented probability that Saghalien wasnot an island, but a peninsula joined to the mainland of Chinaby an isthmus of sand. In 1815, the Russian Count Romanzoff fitted out an expedi-tion at his own expense for the advancement of geographicalscience. The specific object of the voyage was to explore theAmerican coast both to the north and south of Behrings Straits,and to seek a connection thence with Baffins Bay. The com-mand was given to Otto Yon Kotzebue, a son of the distin-guished German dramatist Kotzebue. In Oceanica he discoveredan uninhabited archipelago, which he named Ruricks Chain,. RECEPTION OF KOTZEBUE AT OTDIA. from one of his vessels. In Kotzebue Gulf, northeast of BehringsStraits, he discovered an island which was supposed to contain MAN UPON THE SEA. 497 immense quantities of iron, from the violent oscillations of theneedle. Upon a second visit to Otdia, one of the RurickIslands, in 1824, the inhabitants remembered him upon hisshouting the syllables Totobu,—their manner of pronouncinghis name. They received him with great joy, rushing into thewater up to their hips : they then lifted him out of his boat andcarried him dry-shod to the shore. In 1817, Louis XVIII. sent Captain Freycinet upon the firstvoyage which, though undertaken for the advancement of science,had neither hydrography nor geography for its object. Itspurpose was to determine the form of the globe at the SouthPole, the observation of magnetic and atmospheric p
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