IV.] VISITS TO YALMAL. 157 



SUJEFF, in 1771, travelled under the direction of Pallas over 

 the southern part of Yalmal from Obdorsk to the Kara Sea, and 

 gives an instructive account of observations made during his 

 journey in Pallas, Reise ditrch verschiedene Provinzen des 

 russischen Bciches, St. Petersburg, 1771 — 76, III. pp. 14 — 35. 



Krusexstern, 1862. During his second voyage in the Kara 

 Sea, which ended with the abandonment of the ship Yermak 

 on the coast of Yalmal in about 69° 5-i' N. L., Krusenstern 

 junior escaped with his crew to the shore, reaching it in 

 a completely destitute condition. He had lost all, and would 

 certainly have perished if he had not near the landing-place 

 fallen in with a rich Samoyed, the owner of two thousand 

 reindeer, who received the shipwrecked men in a very friendly 

 way and conveyed them with his reindeer to Obdorsk, distant 

 in a straight line 500, but, according to the Samoyed's reckoning, 

 1,000 versts. In the sketch of Krusenstern's travels, to which 

 I have had access, there is unfortunately no information regard- 

 ing the tribe with which he came in contact durino- this 

 remarkable journey.^ 



Waluburg-Zeil and Finsch, 1876. A very full and exceed- 

 ingly interesting description of the natural conditions in the 

 southernmost part of the peninsula is to be found in the 

 accounts of Count Waldburg-Zeil and Dr. Finsch's journey 

 in the year 1876.^ 



Schwaxexberg, 1877. Captain Schwanenberg landed on the 

 north part of Beli Ostrov during the remarkable voyage which 

 he made in that year from the Yenisej to St. Petersburg. !N"o 

 traces of men, but some of reindeer and bears, were visible. 

 The sea was sufficiently deep close to the shore for vessels of 

 light draught, according to a private communication which I 

 have received from Captain Schwanenberg. 



The Swedish Expedition, 1875. During this voyage we 

 landed about the middle of the west coast of Yalmal. In order 

 to give an idea of the nature of the country, I make the follow- 

 ing extract from my narrative of the voyage,^ which has had but 

 a limited circulation : 



" In the afternoon of the 8th August I landed, along with 



1 Paul von Krusenstern, Skizzen cms seinem Seemannslehen. Hirscliberg 

 in Silesia. Farther on I intend to give a more detailed account of von 

 Krusenstern's two voyages in the Kara Sea. 



2 Deutsche Geogr. Blatter von Lindemann Namens d. Geogr. Gesellsch., 

 Bremen. I. 1877, II. 1878. 0. Finsch, Reise nach West-Sihirien im Jahre 

 1876. Berlin, 1879. A bibliographical list has been drawn up by Count 

 von Waldburg-Zeil under the title, Litteratur-Nachweis fur das Gebiet des 

 unteren Ob. 



'^ Nordenskiold, Redogorelse for en expedition till mynningen af Jeinsej ocJi 

 Sibirien ar 1875, Bih. till Kongl. Vet.-Ak. Handl, vol. iv., No. 1, p. 

 38-42. 



