While in service to Russia in 1741, this Dane died of scurvy on the island that now bears his name
... of 
the great Pacific - were rudely interrupted when Francis Drake, in his ship the .... 
under command of Vitus Bering (**), a Dane in the service of the Csar sailed 
north along the coast through the straits that now bear Bering's name into the 
Arctic.