. Bering's voyages : an account of the efforts of the Russians to determine the relation of Asia and America. Kamchatskaia ekspeditsiia 1725-1730); Kamchatskaia ekspeditsiia 1733-1743). DECISION TO BUILD NEW VESSEL 175 from it, such a decisionals was taken in a council held on April 9 and the following arrangement was made, which was to remain in force from the date when the breaking up should begin until the building of the new vessel should be completed: (i) that the twelve men skilled in the use of the ax should work continuously on the carpenter work; (2) that the others, with the exceptio
. Bering's voyages : an account of the efforts of the Russians to determine the relation of Asia and America. Kamchatskaia ekspeditsiia 1725-1730); Kamchatskaia ekspeditsiia 1733-1743). DECISION TO BUILD NEW VESSEL 175 from it, such a decisionals was taken in a council held on April 9 and the following arrangement was made, which was to remain in force from the date when the breaking up should begin until the building of the new vessel should be completed: (i) that the twelve men skilled in the use of the ax should work continuously on the carpenter work; (2) that the others, with the exception only of the two of^cers and myself, should hunt and work in such a manner that, when one party returned home from the hunt, though indeed having a day for rest, they should nevertheless also attend to the housework and afterwards mend clothing and shoes but on the third and following days they should assist with the work on the vessel, until their turn to hunt came around again; (3) that all meat should be brought to one place and every the journal, p. 169—"the point projecting north"). Furthermore, the height and distance of Copper Island are such that it was in plain view on every clear day from the huts of the shipwrecked crew (see Fig. 21) and. Fig. 21—Copper Island seen from spot near camp of shipwrecked crew on Bering Island marked "Polovina" on PI. II. Sketch by L. Stejneger, April 21. 1883. Because of the deep Bobrovi Valley Copper Island at this distance appears as two islands. Mt. Stejneger was so named and its elevation determined as 637 meters by J. Morozewicz (Mem. Comite GeoL, Vol. 72 (N. S.), St. Petersburg, 1912, p. 45). was therefore known to them. From Cape Waxel it was barely within the arc of visibility, but in an even more southeasterly direction than from the camp. In conformity with the report an island is shown northeast of Bering Island on Waxel's map (this section reproduced in Memoires Acad. Imp. des Set. de St. Petersbourg,
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