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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 



[chap. 



1601, as a side drawing on the principal map. Such high 

 sleighs are also used on the Kaniu peninsula, on Yalmal, 

 and in Western Siberia. The sleighs of the Chukchis, on 

 the other hand, as will be seen by a drawing given farther 

 on, are lower, and thus more resemble our " kaelkar," or 

 work-sledges. 



The neighbourhood of the tents swarmed with small black 

 or white long-haired dogs, with pointed nose and pointed ears. 

 They are used exclusively for tending the herds of reindeer, and 

 appear to be of the same race as the " renvallhund," the reindeer 

 dog. At several places on the coast of the White Sea, how- 

 ever, dogs are also employed as beasts of draught, but according 



SAMOYED SLEIOH. 



After a drawing by Hj. Theel. 



to information which I procured before my departure for 

 Spitzbergen in 1872 — it was then under discussion whether 

 dogs should be used during the projected ice journey — these 

 are of a different race, larger and stronger than the Lapp or 

 Samoyed dogs proper. 



Immediately after the Vega came to anchor, T went on land 

 on this occasion also ; in the first place with a view to take some 

 solar altitudes, in order to ascertain the chronometer's rate of 

 going ; for during the voyage of 1875 I had had an opportunity 

 of determining the position of this place as accurately as is 



