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Vitus Bering and James Cook, two of the grandest names in Alaskan history, had mournfulends, the first dying include all the shipsin the bay, the multiple rooms atop the rock, and even the Aleut workmen inside The two young officers in chargewere men destined in later years to make resounding names for themselves. 'When the terms of sale were agreed upon, with the women of Lapak receiving a fewtrinkets and some lengths of gaudy fabric, Old One and Innuwu

What made the hoax so intriguing was that, while roughly half of it was an outrageous lie, the other half was more or less true. Nothing else. eratedso badly that the only sensible strategy was to leave the island with what furs hadbeen accumulated and head for Petropavlovsk. ut fifty Russians and only two hundred Aleuts, a number which couldbe defeated; and whereas the number of small, unprotected