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ashore further to investigate the wintering place. On 

 digging we found again several objects, such as drum- 

 sticks, a hilt of a sword, and spears. Altogether it 

 seemed that the people had been equipped in a warlike 

 manner, but nothing was found which could indicate 

 the presence of human remains. On the beach we 

 found pieces of wood which had formerly belonged to 

 some part of a ship, for which reason I believe that a 

 vessel has been wrecked there, the crew of which built 

 the house with the materials of the wreck and after- 

 wards betook themselves to boats." 



Bringing away a very large number of articles, he 

 resumed his voyage and landed at Hammerfest, where 

 Mr. E. C. Lister Kay, who happened to be there on a 

 yachting trip, bought them, thinking they would be re- 

 purchased from him, at the price he gave, for one of our 

 own museums. In this he was disappointed, and the 

 collection was taken down to his house in Dorsetshire, 

 where Count Bylandt, the Dutch Ambassador, happen- 

 ing to hear of it, called and bought it for his Govern- 

 ment, who placed it at the Hague in a room, the 

 exact imitation of that in Novaya Zemlya. 



In July, 1876, Mr. Charles Gardiner, another Eng 

 lish yachtsman, when on a cruise in the Glow-worm in 

 Barents Sea, made a call at the house and brought 

 away many other relics, which he presented to the 

 Dutch, to be added to those at the Hague ; and 

 among them was the powder-flask hung in the 

 chimney, containing the paper mentioned by De Veer. 

 The previous August Captain Gundersen had been 

 there in the Norwegian schooner Rcgina. In one of 

 the chests he found two charts and what he described 



