Voyage through the Kara Sea. 



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the Vegas visit, was now closed in with thick winter ice, 







frozen fast to the land. 



We had an open channel before us ; but we could see 

 the edge of the drift-ice out at sea. A little farther west 

 we passed a couple of small islands, lying a short way 



ON LAND EAST OF CAPE CHELYUSKIN (SEPTEMBER IOTH, 



1893). 



(By Otto Sinding, from a Photograph.) 



from the coast. We had to stop before noon at the 

 north-western corner of Chelyuskin, on account of the 

 drift-ice, which seemed to reach right into the land 

 before us. To judge by the dark air, there was open 

 water again on the other side of an island which lay 



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