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THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANXETTE. 



He says there were twenty-five jDeople on board the 

 ship. The captain was an old man with a white beard, 

 and he did not speak EngHsh. There were two offi- 

 cers on board who did speak EngUsh, and there was 

 another officer, who was a Eussian, and he spoke the 

 Chuckch language like a native. To this last offi- 

 cer the chief spoke. When I asked .him if he knew 

 the officer's name, he replied, " Yes, he name Hor- 

 pish." On looking over the list of the officers who 

 accompanied Nordenskjold, I find a Lieutenant Nord- 

 quist, Russian Navy, and it may have been this offi- 

 cer to whom the chief spoke. He did not know the 

 name of anybody else. This " Horpish " told him the 

 ship was Swiss, (query Swedish ?) had wintered in Ko- 

 liutchin Bay, and was going home. Nobody seemed 

 to have any fur clothing, and everybody that came 

 on deck shivered with the cold. The chief showed 

 me the track of the steamer from Koliutchin Bay to 

 St. Lawrence Bay, and pointed out the course of the 

 steamer on leaving as towards the Dio- 

 mede Islands, and thence south along the 

 coast of Kamtchatka. Remaining only 

 until the next day, the vessel steamed 

 out. According to the chief she had 

 " plenty coals." As a way of fixing the 

 date more clearly than the vague state- 

 ment " three moons ago," this steamer 

 arrived seven days after the departure 

 of Captain Cogan. Nothing else had since 

 called at St. Lawrence Bay until our arrival.^ This 



1 " None of the natives in the neighborhood of the Vega's winter station 

 professed the Christian religion. None of them spoke any European hin- 

 guage, though one or two knew a couple of English words and a Russian 

 word of salutation. This was a very unfortunate circumstance, which 

 caused us much trouble. But it was soon remedied by Lieuteuant Nord- 



Native's Lamp. 



