East Cape is well delineated, and the name Serdze Kamen (Heart-Rock) originally given to a cliff or bluff point at the entrance of Holy Cross Bay is transferred to a point on the Arctic shore of the peninsula.
There is a confused and somewhat curious history connected with the use of the names Serdze-Kamen and Chukotski Cape.
Cape Serdze Kamenwill be found on the chart of Billings' Voyage.
The Kamenbrothers were, as always, mysterious, stiff, like Egyptian clay long dried by the sun.
It was interesting to visit the Kamen house and check the copies.
Victor wished to manoeuvre on the enemy's left wing, to overthrow Wittgenstein with the two French corps, and march by Botscheikowo on Kamen, and from Kamen by Pouichna on Berezina.
They were pursued by Wittgenstein, who from Kamen and Vileika hung upon our right flank, at the same time that Kutusoff and Tchitchakof pursued us.
He accordingly reaches the Pacific coast to the north of Bering Strait, and in this way Mueller succeeds in locating Serdze Kamen north of the strait.
Corvette le Seniavine, 1828, where the original Serdze Kamen is found in its proper place with the original Chukchee name, Linglingay.
It can be historically established that this name has been the object of a double change, and that the present Serdze Kamen on the northern coast of the Chukchee peninsula, has nothing whatever to do with the history of Bering and his voyage.
Thus far Bering proceeded in 1728, that is, to this head, which Mueller says is called Serdze Kamen on account of a rock upon it shaped like a heart.
The name Serdze Kamenappears for the first time--historically speaking--in Gerhard Fr.
In other words, the present Serdze Kamen has nothing whatever to do either with Bering's voyage or Mueller's description.
The situation of Serdze Kamen between East Cape and the mouth of the Anadyr is here distinctly given.
Sauer relates the following concerning the origin of the name: "Serdze Kamen is a very remarkable mountain projecting into the bay at Anadyr.
The fact is that Serdze Kamen was a name unknown to Bering.
When he moved Cape Chukotskoi half a dozen degrees farther to the north, he moved Serdze Kamen also, and carried it from St. Kresta Bay up into Bering Strait.
Our prince, after getting satisfaction at Cholganski Kamen from Pan Lashch, gave the rest to oblivion, and made peace with Prince Dominik.
Two hours later, precisely at sunset, the four friends rode out from Cholganski Kamen toward the south.
This, however, takes place on the same ground and with the same justification as that on which the dwellers on the Petchora consider Bolschoj-Kamen a very high mountain.
Meyer thus lay at Serdze Kamen two days after we anchored in our winter haven.
Serdze-Kamen is a long Asiatic-promontory situated nearly a hundred miles to the west of Behring's Straits, and whaling-vessels from the Pacific visit it every year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kamen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
