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ld travel; it was an exposed sea floor somesixty miles east to west, but a full six hundred south to north. But when alone Peter spent careful hours reviewing what he knew about Bering: Methim that day twenty years ago when our training fleet stopped in Holland. Trofim, a quarter ofa century older than this callow youth, surrendered control of fur hunting but resolvedto retain command of all else. The ridges of his face are so drawn that gravity seems to be pulling at him, dragging him down.