NORTH-EAST PASSAGE. 13 



iiinsiila separating the Gulfs of Kama and Obe, in 

 the years 1734-5. This navigation was continued 

 in 1738 hy Lieutenants Malgyin and Skurakoff, 

 who doubled Cape Jalmal on this promontory, and 

 sailed into the Gulf of Obe. Lieutenants Offzin 

 and Iwan KoskelefF, the same year performed the 

 route from the Obe to the Eniesi or Jenisei. And 

 the pilot, Feodor Menin, sailed in the same sum- 

 mer from the Eniesi towards the Lena. He reach- 

 ed the latitude of 73^ 15% and when he came to the 

 mouth of the Piacina, his progress was stopped by 

 the ice ; and finding the passage completely block- 

 ed up, lie returned to the Eniesi. Thus the navi- 

 gation from Archangel to the Piacina, a distance 

 of 47 degrees of longitude towards the east, was 

 completed. Lieutenant Prontschitscheff sailed in 

 1735 from Yakutsk down the Lena, then to the 

 westward to the Olonec, where, owing to numerous 

 interruptions from the ice, he found it necessary to 

 winter. In the month of August of the following 

 year, he passed the rivers Anabara and Ivliatanga, 

 tlion penetrated the ice as far as latitude 77° 25', 

 and coasted along the western side of the most north- 

 erly promontory of the Samoieds' country towards the 

 Piacina, alittle be yondthe Bay of Taimourska, where 

 lie was sto]?ped by an iii'penetra))le barrier of ice*. 



* Coxe's " Account of the Russian Discoveries between 

 Asia 'iTu! Anievica/' p. ;^08. — Accordiiitj to Muller, Proiitschit- 

 scheiT did not quite reach tlie Bay of Taimourska. 



