Vitus Bering

And while the bushrovers of Canada are pushing their way through the wilderness westward, there come slashing, tramping, swearing, stamping through the mountainous wilds of West and East Siberia the Cossack soldiers of Peter the Great, led by the Dane, Vitus Bering, bound on discovery to the west coast of America.

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

_Peter Lauridsen's Vitus Bering translated from the Danish by

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903