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share of the expenses from London was £^yy exclusive 

 of skins, photographs, etc., purchased — an average of 

 about 3f^. per mile, including everything. 



The Yenesei is said to be the third largest river in 

 the world. In Yeneseisk the inhabitants claim that the 

 waters of their river have flowed at least two thousand 

 miles (through Lake Baikal) to their town. Here the 

 river must be more than a mile wide, but at the Kureika, 

 which is about eight hundred miles distant, it is a little 

 more than three miles wide. From the Kureika to the 

 limit of forest growth, where the delta may be said to 

 begin, is generally reckoned another eight hundred miles, 

 for which distance the river will average at least four 

 miles in width. To this we must add a couple of hundred 

 miles of delta and another couple of hundred miles of 

 lagoon, each of which will average twenty miles in width, 

 if not more. 



On reaching the ship we found the crew well and 

 hearty. The men had been amply provided with lime- 

 juice, had always some dried vegetables given them to 

 put into their soup, and the captain had left strict orders 

 with the mate that exercise should be taken every day, 

 and that during the winter trees should be felled and cut 

 into firewood ready for use on board the steamer on her 

 voyage home. The consequence of these sanitary pre- 

 cautions was that no symptoms of scurvy had presented 

 themselves. On the other hand, we afterwards learned 

 that the crew of Sideroffs schooner, which had wintered 

 four degrees farther north, not having been supplied 

 by Captain Schwanenberg with these well-known pre- 

 ventives, had suffered so severely from scurvy that the 

 mate alone survived the winter. 



Our winter quarters were very picturesque. The 

 Thames was moored close to the north shore of the 



