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MEMBEES OF THE EXPEDITION. 



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F. A. Pettersson, first engineer 

 O. Nordstrom, second engineer 

 C. Carlstrom, fireman 

 O. Ingelsson, fireman 

 O. Oeman, seaman 



G. Carlsson, seaman . 



C. Lundgren, seaman . 

 O. Hansson, seaman 



D. Asplund, boatswain, cook 

 C. J. Smaolaenning, boatswain 

 C. Levin, boatswain, steward 

 P. M. Lustig, boatswain 

 C. Ljungstrom, boatswain 

 P. Lind, boatswain 

 P. O. Faeste, boatswain 

 S. Andersson, 'carpenter . 

 J. Haugan, walrus-hunter^ 

 P. Johnsen, walrus-hunter 

 P. Sivertsen, walrus-hunter 

 Th. A. Bostrom, assistant to the scientific 



men 



bom 3rd July 1885 

 24th Feb. 1855 

 14th Dec. 1845 

 2nd Feb. 1849 

 2:3rd April 1843 

 22nd Sep. 1843 

 5th July 1851 

 6th April 1856 

 28th Jan. 1827 

 27th Sep. 1839 

 24th Jan. 1844 

 22ndAprill845 

 12th Oct. 1845 

 15th Sep. 1856 

 23rd Sep. 1856 

 3rd Sep. 1847 

 23rd Jan. 1825 

 15th May 1845 

 2nd Jan. 1853 



21st Sep. 1857 



There was also on board the Vega during the voyage from 

 Tromsoe to Port Dickson, as commissioner for Mr. SibiriakofF, 

 Mr. S. J. SerebrenikofF, who had it in charg'e to oversee the 

 taking on board and the landing of the goods that were to be 

 carried to and from Siberia in the Fraser and Express. These 

 vessels had sailed several da,ys before from Vardoe to Chaborova 

 in Yugor Schar, where they had orders to wait for the Vega. 

 The Lena, again, the fourth vessel that was placed at my 

 disposal, had, in obedience to orders, awaited the Vega in 

 the harbour of Tromsoe, from which port these two steamers 

 were now to proceed eastwards in company. 



After leaving Tromsoe, the course was shaped at first within 

 the archipelago to Maosoe, in whose harbour the Vega was to 

 make some hours' stay, for the purpose of posting letters in 

 the post-office there, probably the most northerly in the world. 

 But during this time so violent a north-west wind began to 

 blow, that we were detained there three days. 



Maosoe is a little rocky island situated in 71° N. L., thirty-two 

 kilometres south-west from North Cape, in a region abounding 

 in fish, about halfway between Bred Sound and Mageroe Sound. 

 The eastern coast of the island is indented by a bay, which 



^ Haugan had formerly for a long series of years carried Lis own vessel 

 to Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, and was known as one of the most 

 fortunate walrus-hunters of the Norwegian Polar Sea fleet. 



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