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[1] Some details of Bering's genealogy, which can be of no interest to the American reader, the translator has taken the liberty to omit.

[2] Norway and Denmark were at this time united.—Tr.

[3] Peter Tordenskjold (1691–1720), a Norwegian in the Danish Norse service—the greatest naval hero Scandinavia has ever produced.—Tr.

[4] See Appendix, Note 1.