Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait

PART I.

BERING'S FIRST EXPEDITION.

CHAPTER I.

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND IN THE WORK OF ARCTIC EXPLORATION.--VITUS BERING'S RANK AS AN EXPLORER.

In the great work of Arctic exploration done during the last two centuries, it was first Russia and later England that took the lead, and to these two nations we are principally indebted for our knowledge of Arctic ...