The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-13

believed. Sailing from Kronstadt in I>15. Korzebuc reached kamchatka -be following year. whence he head, ad for Boring strait. He touched at $. Lawrence Island. rounded Cape Prince or Ware-. and coastins along The north side O. rHe Seward Pcniu- -a'a entered and surveyed the great sound which bears his name On his return passage he visited Una Iazha After Wturariug in the flaw Hau Islands Ko,zcbue made a see oad trip to Alaska. but did not ex- lend his former surveys.
 No vsrcmartr explorations or =8r- ,eys had been attempted under Bar auof. hut change came about when he direetorehip of inc Russian-Amer- seau colony Was transferred to naval officers. several of whom were men If scientific tastes and training and Aid much to foster geographic inycs- .igariouS. other sciences were not asZlccted: systematic meteorologic records were kept at Sitka for many wears and yon Wrangell was most prominent Coming to his post fresh from Arctic explorations. he natur- ally looked with favor on all geo graphic iuve5rigatious. and it was un- t.r his regime that the most i'm portaur of the explorations carried gu by The company were undertak- eu. This work was actively further ea by one of Wraugell's successors, Capt Michael Il. Tebcnkof, who was also an explorer Tebeukofs atlas of he northwestern coast of America, comprising a summary of all prey
 otis Hye-tigaious, is the most i'm portau- contribution To the geography of Alaska made during the entire Russian occupation.
 In ls25 began the most valuable coastal exploration made by the . Russian. American Company This expedition. under the direction of ] Framaarube. Etolin. and Nasi.ief -pou, two years in examining the =aorc line of Bristol Bay and Norton sound In 1he following year Cap. raiu Eurkc. sent out hy the authori ,s.- al Sf. Pcrcrsburs. visited Una .aska and the Prioilof Islands and
 made a careful survey of the north eru coast of the Alaska peninsula
 #he southern coast of the Alaska Peninsula was mapped a few years later hy Nasilicf.
 Among the lesser expeditions made
 under the direction of the company may be mentioned the exploration.
 of the Bristol Bay and Kuskokwin
 regious by Korsakof, Vasilief anc
 Ku}mahof from ISIS to 1S32, and
 Malakors exploration of the Susitna
 in 1>2f. X more important eXpedi
 icu Was one in charge of creole
 ay the name of AnGret Glasuuof, "hC
 crossed from the Russian post al S'
 Michael. Norton Bay, 10 the Yukol
 land thence 10 the KuskokWim. This
 vf,h Malakors trip up the Yukon a. . far as Nulato, paved the way fol
 inc exploitation of the fur trade O the Yukon river.
 By far the most fruitful of the
 Russian inland explorations was tha
 made by Lieutenant Zagoskin, O
 tbc meprial navy. in 1S424&, Tag
 o5kiu ascended the Yukon as fal
 us the mouth of he Panama and eX
 plored the lower stretches of the Koyukuk Under hi, auspices a pos was built at Nulato He also tray ersed the Innoko, an easterly trib utary of the lower Yukon. and made his way eastward to Kuskokwin
 waters. As far as time and mean. , would permit, Zagoskin made tracl
 surveys and asromomic determine
 tons of position, meanwhile taking
 careful notes of the native popula ton and the resources of the regiol
 traversed. In the light of subsequen . developments it is of interest tC note his statement that the Yukon or Kwikpak as he called it, wa . not navigabIe above tte mouth 0 rhe Panama.
 In the meantime activity in Arcti explorations once more drew atten .on of English navigators to tht northwest coast. In 1TS9 AleXande
 Mackenzie had followed to the Arc
 tie ocean the great river which bear his name In 1926 Sir John Frank lin had traversed the Arctic coaS westward, from the mouth of th Mackenzie as far as Return Reef ol the north Alaskan coast; and Car tain F. w. Beechy, of H. NJ. s RlOgsom, who had been dispatclc tl cooperate with Franklin, carc fully tharted the southern coast o Seward Peninsula to Cane Prince 0
 Wales. and added many details .
 th" ork of KotZebue in KOtZeb | Sound extending his surveys nortf ward until blocked by ice. A boa expedition under Beechey's mate E
 son succeeded in reaching Poin