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place of landing in the Kuriles, the island Figurnyi, and
to identify it with its present name. He discovered this
island on the 3d of July. Müller says that, according to
the ship’s journal, it is in latitude 43° 50′ N., and in spite
of the fact that Spangberg’s determinations in longitude,
based on the ship’s calculations, were as a rule somewhat
inaccurate, which in a measure is shown by Nipon’s being
located so far west, he is nevertheless in this case right.
Figurnyi is the island Sikotan and has the astronomical
position of this island on the chart (according to Golovnin
43° 53′ N. and 146° 43′ 30″ E.). This opinion is
corroborated by a map of the Russian discoveries published at
St. Petersburg in 1787, and by Captain Broughton, who
described the island in the fall of 1796, and gave it the
name of Spangberg’s Island, in honor of its first
discoverer. With this point fixed, it is not difficult to
understand and follow Spangberg.
Spangberg labored under very unfavorable
circumstances. It rained constantly, the coast was enveloped in
heavy fogs, and at times it was impossible to see land at
a distance of eight yards. From Figurnyi he sailed
southwest, but under these difficult circumstances he
took the little islands of Taroko and the northern point
of Yezo to be one continuous coast (Seljonyi, the green
island), and anchored at the head of Walvisch bay, his
Bay of Patience. From here he saw the western shore of
the bay, reached its farthest point, Cape Notske, and
discovered the peninsula of Sirokot and parts of the
island Kumashiri, which he called Konosir and
Tsyntrounoi respectively; but, as he turned from Cape Notske
and sailed east into the Pacific, between Sikotan and the
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