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Paul,
I can't specifically answer your question, but Holland's _Arctic
Exploration and Development_ encylopedia lists a number of Russian
expeditions (combined hunting and exploration) that left from Kamchatka
during this period and sailed to the Aleutians. These included an
expedition between 1758 and 1762 headed by one Stepan Glotov, who,
according to the Holland's synopsis, issued a map upon his return.
More promising, perhaps, is the reference that Holland gives for most of
these Russian expeditions:
Makarova, R.V., _Russians on the Pacific 1743-1799_, Kingston, Ontario:
Limestone Press, 1975 (translation of the 1968 Russian edition).
-- Jeremy Pool
On 8/5/2010 3:04 PM, Paul van den Brink wrote:
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On April 17th 1764 a message appeared in several Dutch newspapers
narrating the results of a small 6-man Russian expedition (out of
Kamtschatka) into the Bering Sea. During this voyage sixteen unnamed
islands were discovered, most likely belonging to the Aleutian Islands
westward from the Alaska Peninsula.
A (free) translated text follows below. Does someone know what expedition
is meant, if something is known about the map of the expedition and if
there are modern references?
“From the letters of Saint Petersburg we read that a message from
Kamskatsch (Kamtschatka) has come in communicating that the six
inhabitants who four years undertook a voyage into the Polar Sea have
returned unexpectedly. All this time not the slightest was heard of them
and it was believed that they all had deceased.
The voyagers have reported that they, while following a North-Eastern
course, had discovered sixteen Islands. Two of those islands were visited
by them. While there was sufficient food they decided to stay there for
some time, what permitted to them to study the islands, the residents and
their habits. They conclude that the inhabitants of these islands are part
of the Nation of the Eskimos (Esquimeaux), because they closely resemble
the North American Indians along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River
and in Canada. The six voyagers have constructed a map, which is preserved
in the Russian Archives in Moscow”.
Paul van den Brink
University of Utrecht
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