CONTENTS 



Intkoduction Page 1 



CHAPTER I. 



Departure — Troinsoe — Members of the Expedition — Stay at Maosoe — Limit of 

 Trees — Climate — Scurvy and Antiscorbutics — The tirst doubling of North 

 Cape — Othere's account of his Travels — Ideas concerning the Geography of 

 Scandinavia current during the first half of the sixteenth century — The 

 oldest Majis of the North — Herbertstein's account of Istoma's voyage — 

 Gustaf Vasa and the North-East Passage — Willoughby and Chaiicelor's 

 voyages .......... Pages 30 — 57 



CHAPTER II. 



Departure from Maosoe — Gooseland — State of the Ice — The Vessels of the 

 Expedition assemble at Chabarova — The Samoyed town there — The Church — 

 Russians and Samoyeds — Visit to Chabarova in 1875 — Purchase of Samoyed 

 Idols — Dress and dwellings of the Samoyeds — Comparison of the Polar 

 Races — Sacrificial Places and Samoyed Grave on Waygats Island visited — 

 Former accounts of the Samoyeds — Their j^lace in Ethnography. 



Pages 57—83 



CHAPTER III. 



From the Animal "World of Novaya Zemlya — The Fulmar Petrel— The Rotge or 

 Little Auk — Briinnich's Guillemot — The Black Guillemot — The Arctic Pufiin 

 — The Gulls— Richardson's Skua — Tlie Tern — Ducks and Geese— The Swan 

 — Waders— The Snow Bunting — The Ptarmigan — The Snowy Owl — The 

 Reindeer — The Polar Bear — The Arctic Fox — The Lemming — Insects— The 

 Walrus— The Seal— Whales Pages 83—130 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Origin of the names Yugor Schar and Kara Sea— Rules for Sailing through 

 Yugor Schar— The "Highest Mountain" on Earth— Anchorages— Entering 

 the Kara Sea— Its Surroundings- The Inland-ice of Novaya Zemlya— True 

 Icebergs rare in certain parts of the Polar Sea— The Natural Conditions^ of 

 the Kara Sea— Animals, Plants, Bog-ore— Passage across the Kara Sea— The 

 Influence of the lee on the Sea-bottom — Freshwater Diatoms on Sea-ice — 

 AiTival at Port Dickson — Animal Life there — Settlers and Settlements at the 

 Mouth of the Yeniscj— The Flora at Port Dickson— E vertebrates— Excursion 

 to Wliite Island— Yalmal— Previous Visits— Nummelin's Wintering on the 

 Briochov Islands Pages 131—164 



