The Fortuna, which had sailed round …
Years: 1729 - 1729
April
The Fortuna, which had sailed round the Kamchatka Peninsula to bring supplies to the Lower Kamchatka Post, returns in the spring of 1729 to Bolsheretsk; so, shortly after, does the Gabriel.
The delay had been caused by a four-day journey Bering had embarked upon directly eastwards in search of North America, to no avail.
