The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . CHAP. XV.] BEHRING ISLAND. 595 northern fishing station. There are besides some scatteredhouses here and there on other parts of the island, for instanceon its north-eastern side, where the potato is said to be cultivatedon a small scale, and at the fishing place on the north side wherethere are two large sheds for skins and a number of very smallearth-holes used only during the slaughter season. Behring Island, with regard both to geography and naturalhistory, i
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . CHAP. XV.] BEHRING ISLAND. 595 northern fishing station. There are besides some scatteredhouses here and there on other parts of the island, for instanceon its north-eastern side, where the potato is said to be cultivatedon a small scale, and at the fishing place on the north side wherethere are two large sheds for skins and a number of very smallearth-holes used only during the slaughter season. Behring Island, with regard both to geography and naturalhistory, is one of the most remarkable islands in the north partof the Pacific. It was here that Behring after his last unfortunatevoyage in the sea which now bears his name, finished his longcourse as an exjilorer. He was however survived by many of THE colony on COPPER ISLAKD. (After a photograph.) his followers, among them by the physician and naturalist Steller,to whom we owe a masterpiece seldom surpassed—a sketch ofthe natural conditions and animal life on the island, never beforevisited by man, where he involuntarily passed the time from themiddle of November 1741, to the end of August 1742. 1 Original accounts of the wintering on Behring Island are to be foundin Sammlung Russischer Geschichte, St. Petersburg, 1758, 228-238 and 242-2G8; (Stellers) Topofjraphische mid 2^h/stf<:aUscheBeschreibunrj der (Pallas Neue Nordische Beytnifje, St. Peters-l)urg and Leipzig, 1781-83, ii. p. 225); G. W. Stellers Tagehuch seinerSeereise aus dem Petrlpauh Uafen . . und seiner Begehenheiten auf derRuckreise (Pallas Neueste Nordische Beyfnige, St. Petersburg and Leipzig,1793-96, i. p. 130; ii. p. 1). Q Q 2 596 THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. [chap, xv It was the desire to procure for our museums the skins orske
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