The Fortuna, which had sailed round the…
April 1729 CE
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.