Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — A Long-Neglected Grave. [ARTICLE]

A Long-Neglected Grave.

That lonely speck in Behring Sea where Commander Behring of the Russian navy, the first efficient explorer of those waters, lies buried beneath a rude cairn, will presently have a monument to the navigator’s memory. The Russian man-of-war Aleut recently visited the spot, and will return with a metal cross inscribed to the memory of Behring and his followers and proclaimed as the tribute of the Aleut. Behring was wrecked on the island in 1741.